Sad to read all of this. Years ago when I used to frequent the PX kerosene canary I thought the in-flight food and service was quite good. Sure, flights often departed late or not at all, and I sometimes had to overnight at Airways or elsewhere on the PX account. All part of the rough-and-tumble of the PNG experience. But to stiff their ground staff 1K to catch the company bus just sucks big time. Makes me wonder, if they are so desperate to generate such a pittance of revenue in this way, how do they cope with big ticket items like maintenance and spare parts etc?