031218AIR NIUGINI TO LAUNCH WEEKLY FLIGHTS INTO AROPA AIRPORT
New Dawn FM News
Good news to the people of South and Central Bougainville, Air Niugini will launch a weekly direct flight from Port Moresby to KIETA and KIETA to Port Moresby starting Tuesday 18th December 2018.
The flight will operate POM/KIETA on Tuesday and KIETA/POM on Friday.
Details are PX262 will depart Port Moresby ON Tuesday at 0750 hours and arriving KIETA 1040.
PX 263 on Fridays will depart Kieta 1435 hours arriving Port Moresby at 1515 hours.
The flights will go through Buka on each direction.
Air Niugini also announced that the daily services between Port Moresby and BUKA will remain except Tuesdays and Fridays where flights will go via Kieta.
The GM Commercial with Air Niugini DOMINIC KAUMU when making this announcement also thanked the member for South Bougainville, TIMOTHY MASIU for contributing with the payment of PAPI lights for AROPA which has made it possible for the Jet services to go into AROPA.
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We can sustain this flight if/only if we make it economical i.e travel in/out from Kieta rather than road ride up to Buka to get on PX/PNGAir for us in South and Central.
I travel in/out of Kieta every 14 days on Png Air,95% of the time the flight is less than one third (1/3) full.
Posted by: A.Peta | 04 December 2018 at 12:57 PM