Australia And Philippines Reopen Borders To All Travellers
Australia has announced that its international borders will reopen for all travellers including Papua New Guineans from 21st February. Likewise, Philippines has announced that its international borders will reopen for all travellers including Papua New Guineans from 10th February. For both Australia and Philippines, travellers must be fully vaccinated but do not have to quarantine on arrival. Normal visa requirements still apply. Travel on direct services from Papua New Guinea to Cairns on is still banned by the Queensland Government, presently until 26th March.
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Flight Disruptions
Air Niugini apologises for a number of flights in recent days which have been disrupted due to a much higher number of crew than usual falling sick, as well as the current wet weather conditions across the country impacting on the airline�s operations.
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International Vaccination Travel Requirements
Passengers travelling internationally are reminded that they need to provide acceptable evidence of being fully vaccinated at time of check-in. This is now a requirement for travel to most countries, including Papua New Guinea. Exemption from vaccination for children is dependent on the requirements of their destination country. Certificates valid for travel includes (amongst others) the PNG International Certificate of Covid Vaccination (ICCV) ,� the WHO yellow card, the Australian Covid-19 Digital� Vaccination Certificate, as well as compliant certificates issued by other countries.
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Covid Testing Requirements For Travel To Australia And Singapore , And Other International Destinations
Air Niugini would like to advise customers that both Australia and Singapore have amended their Covid-19 testing requirements prior to travel to these countries. Effective from Tuesday 25th January, for passengers flying into both Australia and Singapore as their final destination, a rapid antigen test (RAT) administered and certified by a Doctor is now accepted in lieu of a PCR test.� For Australia, the rapid test must be conducted within 24 hours of scheduled departure while Singapore, the rapid test must be conducted within 48 hours of scheduled departure.
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Travel To Queensland
Air Niugini is pleased to advise customers that effective from 1am Saturday 22nd January, fully vaccinated international passengers can fly into Queensland with no requirement for any quarantine on arrival. Passengers will be required to self-conduct a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) within 24 hours of arriving in Australia.
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Air Niugini resumes services to Kieta, and lifting of Covid Testing Requirements for travel to Autonomous Region of Bougainville [AROB]
Air Niugini wishes to advise the travelling public that the airline will resume its Fokker 70 jet services to Kieta�s Aropa airport effective from 25th January 2022. Flights into Kieta had been suspended at the direction of the Regional Pandemic Controller for AROB since October 2021 due to increasing COVID case numbers, however this direction has now been revoked today, Thursday 13th January 2022.
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International Travel: Vaccination Requirements – Flights Departing PNG
All passengers departing internationally from PNG are reminded that they must show evidence at check-in that they are fully vaccinated. For passengers who have been vaccinated in PNG, they must produce the yellow International Vaccination Certificate (which is issued by PNG National Department of Health).� The green domestic vaccination certificate is not sufficient. �For passengers who were vaccinated overseas this will be the vaccination certificate issued in the country they were vaccinated in. The only exceptions are where; the passenger can provide evidence of a medical exemption in a form acceptable to their destination �country,� and for any countries of transit. This will normally be signed by a medical practitioner; or children under the age of 18 (which is presently the minimum age for vaccinations in PNG) and the child is approved to travel to their destination (and for any countries of transit) unvaccinated .
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International Vaccination Certificate
All passengers departing internationally from PNG are reminded they must show evidence at check-in that they are fully vaccinated. For passengers who have been vaccinated in PNG, this is the yellow International Vaccination Certificate (which is issued by the PNG National Department of Health).�
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Travel To Queensland
From 1st November fully vaccinated passengers have been able to fly into Sydney and travel to NSW, Victoria and ACT but presently have to home quarantine for three days. You can transit domestically to your home location after landing in Sydney, by car or air,� before entering into the three days of home quarantine .� From 15th December, this will also apply for those travelling to Tasmania.�
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Air Niugini Flights To Lae And Kavieng
Further to previous updates, the National Airports Corporation (NAC) has advised that the completion of runway works at Lae (Nadzab) and Kavieng airports have been delayed into 2022. Kavieng is now expected to return to Fokker jet operations around the third week of January (instead of this month), whilst jet services to Nadzab are expected to resume in April 2022 (instead of January).
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Online Payment Service Now Restored
Air Niugini is pleased to advise customers that the online payment facility for tickets purchased via the Air Niugini website has now been fully restored. Tickets and services can be paid for online with Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards.
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AIir Niugini Resumes Fokker Jet Services To Madang
Following the resumption of jet services to Wewak last week, Air Niugini wishes to advise the travelling public that the airline has now also resumed its Fokker jet services to Madang effective tomorrow, Wednesday 17th November 2021.The resumption of Fokker flights follows the completion of runway maintenance works by the National Airports Corporation(NAC). Since the works on the airport runway commenced early this year, Link PNG has been operating to Madang airport using smaller Dash-8 aircraft, but with passenger numbers restricted to as few as 20 at times because of the shortened runway. For a period of time in July/August the runway was closed to even Dash-8 size aircraft.
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Resumption Of Fokker Jet Services To Wewak
Air Niugini wishes to advise the travelling public that the airline has now resumed its Fokker jet services to Boram airport, Wewak effective today, Friday 12th November 2021. The resumption of Fokker flights follows the completion of runway repairs by the National Airports Corporation(NAC). Since the works on the airport runway commenced early this year, Link PNG has been operating to Wewak airport using smaller Dash-8 aircraft, but with passenger numbers restricted to as few as 20 at times because of the shortened runway.
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Air Niugini operates additional flights to Sydney.
Air Niugini is pleased to advise customers that due to high demand for Sydney flights, the airline will be operating three special flights from Port Moresby to Sydney and back, using the Boeing 767 aircraft.The flights, PX 4001/4002 will operate every Sunday, commencing on 28th November, followed by 05th and 12th December. These flights depart Port Moresby at 07:00am and arrive in Sydney at 11:55am with the return services departing Sydney at 12:55pm and arriving back in POM at 3:55pm.
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Link PNG Resumes Operations To Kavieng Airport
Link PNG Limited (a subsidiary airline of Air Niugini Limited) wishes to advise the travelling public that the safety concern regarding loose gravel on the runway at Kavieng airport has now been resolved by the airport operator.
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Link PNG Suspends Operations To Kavieng Airport
Link PNG Limited (a subsidiary airline of Air Niugini Limited) regrets to advise the travelling public that with immediate effect, it has suspended its operations into Kavieng airport due to safety concerns over loose gravel following recent runway upgrade work. The presence of loose gravel material poses safety hazard and risk to our aircraft and passengers therefore in the interest of safety, the airline has taken this step to suspend operations until the airport operator (National Airports Corporation) resolves the issue. �Link PNG looks forward to resuming services once there is assurance that the matter has been resolved and it can operate safely into Kavieng airport.
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