Monday 20 August 2018

Air Niugini opens Micronesia's first route to Asia on 1 September 2018

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Air Niugini, the national airline of Papua New Guinea, opens Micronesia's first route to Asia on 1 September from Port Moresby using its B737-800 aircraft. It flies every Wednesday and Saturday from Port Moresby via Chuuk to Narita, Japan from 1 September 2018.

According to Air Niugini, its flight PX56 departs from Port Moresby for Narita via Chuuk at 12.35 pm, arrives in Chuuk at 3.35 pm before leaving Chuuk for Narita at 4.35 pm and touching down in Narita at 8.25 pm on 1 September 2018.

Air Niugini's outbound flight from Narita, PX57, leaves Narita for Chuuk at 9.35 pm on 1 September 2018, transits in Chuuk at 3.25 am before departing from Chuuk for Port Moresby at 4.25 am and arriving in Port Moresby at 7.25 am on 2 September 2018.  There are convenient flight connections to Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Honiara and other Air Niugini's Pacific destinations including five flights a week to Manila from  Port Moresby from 1 September 2018.

Chuuk is the largest city of the Federated States of Micronesia, an independent sovereign nation of atolls in the Pacific.

The other future destination of Air Niugini is Shanghai-Pudong, which the Papua New Guinean airline has yet to announce its flight schedules.


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