Air Niugini

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Air Niugini
Air Niugini Boeing 767-300ER
IATA code : PX
ICAO code : ANG
Call sign : NIUGINI
Founding: 1973
Seat: Port Moresby , Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea 
Turnstile :

Port Moresby Airport

Home airport : Port Moresby Airport
IATA prefix code : 656
Management: Simon Foo ( CEO )
Number of employees: 1,435 (2005)
Frequent Flyer Program : Executive Club
Fleet size: 18 (+ 5 orders)
Aims: National and international
Website: airniugini.com.pg

Air Niugini is the national airline of Papua New Guinea , based in Port Moresby and based at Port Moresby Airport .

history

Air Niugini's Boeing 720 in 1976

Air Niugini was founded in 1973 as the National Airline of Papua New Guinea . The 1990s were difficult economic times for the airline, which were only overcome after 2000.

On September 22, 2011, it was announced that the government of Papua New Guinea had approved a merger with Airlines PNG , the country's second largest airline. This merger has not yet taken place.

Destinations

In addition to numerous destinations within Papua New Guinea , Air Niugini also serves several international cities in Oceania and Asia .

fleet

Air Niugini Boeing 737-700
De Havilland DHC-8-200 of Air Niugini
Fokker 100 from Air Niugini in the old color scheme

Active fleet

As of May 2020, the Air Niugini fleet consists of 18 aircraft with an average age of 25.0 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
( Business / Economy ) 		Average age

(May 2020)

Boeing 737-700 1 with winglets fitted 116 (12/104) 21.6 years
Boeing 737-800 1 144 (16/128) 16.6 years
Boeing 737 MAX 8 4th Delivery probably from 2020 - open -
Boeing 767-300ER 2 188 (28/160) 24.7 years
Boeing 787-8 1 - open -
De Havilland DHC-8-300 1 50 (- / 50) 24.6 years
Fokker 70 6th two inactive 72 (8/65) 27.5 years
Fokker 100 7th 101 (8/93) 24.2 years
total 18th 5 25.0 years

Former aircraft types

In the past, Air Niugini already used the following types of aircraft:

Incidents

Air Niugini has one fatality in its history, five aircraft had to be written off as a total loss:

  • On May 31, 1995, a Fokker F28 ( aircraft registration P2-ANB ) had an accident en route from Lae to Madang when landing in Madang. After a first, aborted landing approach, it touched down too late and slipped into a ditch due to aquaplaning . The occupants got away with the horror, the machine is a total loss.
  • On November 16, 1997, another Fokker F28 (P2-ANH) came off the runway on landing in Lae and again ended up in a ditch. Passengers and crew were uninjured, the machine is a total write-off.
  • On March 13, 1999, after a hard landing at Goroka Airport, the left main landing gear of a Fokker F28 (P2-AND) buckled and the machine came off the runway. The cause of the accident was overpressure in a shock absorber, all occupants were uninjured.
  • On October 19, 2013, an ATR 42-320F (P2-PXY) had an accident while aborting take-off at Madang Airport . The overloaded and incorrectly trimmed cargo plane collided with a fence, rolled into a river at the end of the runway, and the right wing caught fire. The fire was extinguished by the integrated fire extinguishers of the engines and the use of the airport fire brigade. The three-person crew saved themselves via the emergency exit in the cockpit ceiling, and the co-pilot suffered minor injuries. Looters seized a third of the cargo consisting of cigarettes. The plane is a total loss.
  • On 14 June 2018 the Company's aircraft in riots suffered during a demonstration by arson at the airport Mendi a total loss . Passengers and crew were unharmed.
  • On September 28, 2018, a 13-year-old Boeing 737-800 (P2-PXE) from Pohnpei landed in heavy rain and poor visibility at Chuuk Airport 150 meters beyond the runway in a lagoon . On board were 35 passengers and 12 crew members, who rescued themselves from the plane, which was still floating about an hour after the watering, into boats that had come up. The body of a missing passenger was recovered by divers on October 1, 2018. There were several survivors, some seriously injured. The aircraft is an economic total loss.

Trivia

See also

Web links

Commons : Air Niugini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Airlines PNG News ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 10, 2017 (English)
  2. ↑ airniugini.com - Destinations , accessed on December 20, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c Air Niugini Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 16, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries (English), accessed December 20, 2016
  5. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Air Niugini and Okay Airways: Boeing is collecting orders in Asia, accessed on February 21, 2016
  6. ↑ Data on the airline Air Niugini in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on October 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident on May 31, 1995 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  8. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of November 16, 1997 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  9. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of March 13, 1999 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  10. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of October 19, 2013 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  11. ^ Investigation report of the Papua New Guinea Accident Investigation Commission
  12. ↑ Dissatisfied with election - plane set on fire. aerotelegraph.com from June 15, 2018
  13. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of September 28, 2018 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  14. ↑ Lagoon instead of runway: passenger plane lands in the water Die Zeit from 28 September 2018
  15. ↑ A rescued person can no longer be found aerotelegraph.com from September 30, 2018