Most of APNG's issues can be traced back to the current CEO. He was 'moved' from Skytrans due to incompetence and CASA wanting him gone due to continued non compliances, and he was sent to APNG by SW, which was a bad move as he has now brought them to their knees financially as well. The amount of accidents and the redundancy of the best pilots and engineers to save money is frightening, and backs industry's concerns about both it and it's sister airline.
Skytrans can't hold on to Chief Pilots or safety staff either, who keep leaving. The current Skytrans 'chief pilot in training' with just 10 weeks service has resigned. Yet another manager flee's with their life. The actual CP who was training the young fella leaves in November, after resigning 4 times in two years. They have lost all the key managers, have two idiots running the airline, both with backgrounds in either accounting (not formally), or in school teaching. The other so-called manager running everything is an ex check-in bloke from Gladstone who talks big but achieves nothing. The writing is on the wall for both these airlines, and both needed to sign off on big contracts to stay afloat, and both have been unable to achieve that in recent months as they are simply out of their depth in a changing environment.
Runway incursions in Australia, Dash 8's into the ground in PNG, maintenance overuns, lots of things being swept under the carpet in both countries, it might be time that the Wild family went back to PNG, bought a farm and plowed all their energy in returning bull**** to the ground. It would be far safer for the travelling public.
P.S Skytrans are doing yet another major overhaul of an aircraft in the open hangar in Cairns, Amazing how CASA turn a blind eye to that, considering it breaches their maintenance permission for that facility. Nobody seems to care that there is no fire supression equipment in that hangar and it is only meant to be used for light maintenance and avionics work
