Until ANG management realise that pilots aren’t a renewable commodity anymore, particularly considering the current global shortage of experienced flight crews on the market, they will never ever find a sustainable long term solution to unravel the disaster that they have orchestrated.

I know that consumer confidence (particularly from the corporate clientele side of the business) is being severely eroded due continuous flight delays/cancellations and safety concerns. Lots of corporate clients who have used ANG for years are now using other carriers, even if they need to pay more and add time to their journeys.

If another airline started operating on the POM-SIN-POM route on a very regular basis offering competitive airfares, ANG’s overall profit margins would crash overnight.

Fake news.
When the Prime Minister resigns the Deputy PM is in charge ie Abel.
Sir J & O’Steal can cook up whatever they want but without the Governor General approval Abel is PM.
Westminster System.... not village court

Couldn’t get Sir J on the phone NCD, network issues etc.
However the Governor General answered and says he hasn’t sworn Sir J in so he ain’t the PM!
Constitution problems aren’t superseded by organic laws.
liklik sumtin sir J em gutpla man tru

So with regards to the above who is sitting in the PMs chair?

Not Sir J.

ABC... EMTV... olgeta sumting... wrong / fake news

Loud Handle these blokes are blind ABC followers.

Last I heard the ABC were still trying to work how their prediction of Labor’s landslide federal election reporting were so wrong :rolleyes:

Today’s Cairns Post,

ANY requests by Air Niugini to start a direct freight and passenger service between Cairns and Hong Kong would be considered by Federal MP Warren Entsch.

Managing director Alan Milne said, while the airline currently stopped in Port Moresby on all its routes, determining a direct flight to Hong Kong from the Far North was not off the table.

“We can ask for rights to fly direct but because we’re not related to either Hong Kong or Australia, it would be more difficult ,” he said. “I think … you’d have to show it was in the national interest and the withdrawal of Cathay Pacific may well fall into that category.”

Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the Papua New Guinean airline’s bid “certainly came out of left field” , but he welcomed the move.
“We’d already said to Cathay Pacific, from a federal perspective anything they needed we would look at, but they weren’t interested,” he said.

“They’d obvious made a decision and were sticking to that. I’ve had no approach from Air Niugini but I’m certainly open to any request.

“I’m certainly part of a broader group which has committed to doing whatever we can to build capacity.

“It’s not just a matter of the Australian Government signing off and saying yes. Certainly that’s part of an approval process, but for Air Niugini to fly directly to Hong Kong, authorities there will have to give them access and also the PNG government has to make a decision. The Australian Government approval is part of a trifecta.”

Air Niugini is offering a freight and passenger service to Hong Kong via Port Moresby to replace Cathay Pacific which will end its direct flights to Hong Kong in October. Seafood exporters will be the most disadvantaged by the cancellation with frequent, direct flights to China critical to the industry.

NCD nobody knows or understands PNG politics.

The real question is, will the Board change?
With a change in Government usually comes a Board change as jobs for the boys etc.

Seeing as the current Chairman is best mates with the now ex PM O’Neil I’d expect to a reshuffle of the deck.

Good to see the new MD making a name for himself.