PX offering big discount on airfares

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The National, Tuesday February 25th, 2014

 AIR Niugini is bringing back its heavily discounted airfares to mark the airline’s 40th anniversary this year.

Under this promo, the passenger will only pay 40% of the ticket’s cost. In short, the customer will get a 60% discount.

General manager-commercial Dominic Kaumu (pictured) told a news briefing yesterday this offer was available on both the domestic and international routes and urged Papua New Guineans to take advantage of the cheap fare.

He said: “It is Air Niugini’s way of saying ‘thank you’ to our people who have been supportive of Air Niugini in its 40 years of operations. 

“The airline will continue to make this fare available throughout the year and we encourage Papua New Guineans to take advantage of this huge discount.”

Although, the official reintroduction of the 40% was only made today, Kaumu said the new fare was carried out last Feb 1. 

Since then, 21,000 seats have been sold..

The discounted fare was first implemented last September to coincide with Air Niugini’s 40th anniversary on Nov 1, 2013.

Between Sept 1 and Nov 30, last year Air Niugini sold up to 64,000 seats on the discounted fare.