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| The New PNG Air ATR 72-600 aircraft at Nazab Airport in Lae Morobe Province Papua New Guinea |
By FIDELIS SUKINA
Airlines PNG has successfully rebranded and is now called
PNG Air, the change happened on Thursday at the PNG Defense Force Air Transport
Wing at Jacksons Airport in Port Moresby.
The event saw PNGs Prime Minister Peter O’Neill cutting the
ribbon on the airlines new ATR 72-600 aircraft, which is sure to boost the
confidence and reach for the airline.
The night was marked with celebration, a fashion show by the
cabin crew and pilots, and a tour into the new aircraft by everyone present.
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| The new Aircraft after its Inaugural flight to Morobe Province |
“It has been a long road for Airlines PNG, we fondly
remember this airline from Miline Bay Airlines (MBA) to Airlines PNG and
tonight we are here to witness the rebranding to PNG Air”.
“PNG Air is an asset and has served most of our rural
communities to help them engage meaningfully with the rest of the country; with
this new plane they will replace the famous Dash 8 aircrafts”. O’Neill said
CEO of PNG Air Muralee Siva said the decision to upgrade the
fleet and rebrand the Airline was a task 2 years in the making.
“We have been preparing for this event for the last two years,
since the decisions were made to upgrade the airline’s fleet”.
“Rebranding of the airline has helped us shape our vision of
where we needed to be and what we needed to change to get there, in particular
with the fact that we are truly PNG owned with majority shares by National
Superannuation Fund (NASFUND) and Mineral Resource Development Corporation
(MRDC) it has helped us reinforce our commitment to PNG as reflective of the
design elements we have chosen after a lot of input by staff and people across
the country”.
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| A traditional Dancing Group welcoming the plane at Nazab Airport |
The airline will have 3 of these aircraft operating by the
end of March 2016, 5 by the end of 2016 and 7 by the end of 2017.
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