Passengers frustrated over flight cancellations

**Air Niugini passenger Andrew Bepi Kole venting his frustration at the domestic terminal yesterday.**

FRUSTRATED passengers at the Jackson Airport in Port Moresby yesterday urged the Government to quickly address flight cancellations which are becoming frequent.
Andrew Bepi Kole and his family were at the airport to catch their Air Niugini morning flight to Mt Hagen’s Kagamuga yesterday. But they were left stranded with hundreds others at the airport.

**Stranded passengers at the Jackson domestic terminal in Port Moresby yesterday. – Nationalpics by NICKY BERNARD**

“We have business trips and family trips in this busy period of travel, along with the increase in airfares. We can’t afford to stay for another cancelled flight,” he said.
He said this family spent K4,795 for the airfares of six people.
“They (Air Niugini management) are not here to address passengers,” he said.

**Kaka Andrias (left), Mare Lucas and Gabriel Ariro with his one-year-old daughter Grace at the Jackson domestic terminal in Port Moresby yesterday.**

Kole said they would just have to wait at their Eight-Mile home for further information from Air Niugini.
Air Niugini cancelled all its domestic flights after Puma Energy suspended the supply of fuel due to the lack of foreign currency.
Gabriel Ariro, who was at the airport to send off a relative, said air travel was the main mode of transportation to other regions.
Attempts to get a comment from Air Niugini yesterday were unsuccessful.