Airline’s passenger numbers exceed pre-pandemic levels

AIR Niugini chief executive officer Bruce Alabaster says the airline’s passenger numbers are already higher than pre-Coronavirus (Covid-19) levels of 2019.
“We expect passenger volume to grow further as PNG gets back to business,” he said. Alabaster said the airline’s inflight magazine, Paradise, would return to Air Niugini flights in September after the publication was suspended following the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in April 2020.
“Paradise has a special place in PNG’s culture. Since its earliest days, just after PNG’s Independence, it has been a window to our visitors,” he said.
“Paradise’s return is a great sign that international and domestic travel in PNG is well and truly back after two challenging year.” Paradise was first published in 1976.
In 2020, it beat the inflight magazines of Qantas, Virgin and Fiji Airways to be voted Oceania’s Leading Inflight Magazine in the 2020 World Travel Awards.