Air Niugini / QF code share terminated

[Deleted member 29185]

Following a rejection earlier this year of QFs application to increase their code share agreement, PX have apparantly successfully applied to terminate the agreement entirely.

Hopefully I've got the details correct. It was in the weekend Post Courier (or the National, can't recall which I read it in). Explains why I haven't seen QF flights appearing when I search the PX booking engine.

 

[Scarlett]

Who wins with a change like that? Seems to be a backwards step.

 

[eastwest101]

I'm not sure if its unrelated or not but I think I saw that VA were actually increasing services between PNG and Australia and had signed a code share with PNG Air?

http://www.impactpub.com.au/micebtn...22789-thumbs-up-for-virgin-png-air-code-share

(As a side issue - have a think about where all the ex-VARA ATR42s and 72s could be going?)

Everything about the PNG market is weird, yields are a mystery, IASC determinations seem completely random and I assume its more about Wantok politics and the profitability of freight than actual pax that drive the economics of traffic between PNG and various Australian ports?

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Here's a photo of the newspaper article.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I'm not sure if its unrelated or not but I think I saw that VA were actually increasing services between PNG and Australia and had signed a code share with PNG Air?

http://www.impactpub.com.au/micebtn...22789-thumbs-up-for-virgin-png-air-code-share

(As a side issue - have a think about where all the ex-VARA ATR42s and 72s could be going?)

Everything about the PNG market is weird, yields are a mystery, IASC determinations seem completely random and I assume its more about Wantok politics and the profitability of freight than actual pax that drive the economics of traffic between PNG and various Australian ports?

I've also read both PX & CG profits are up and I can confirm that prices are higher now than I have paid previously. VA and Airlines PNG (the prevous name of PNG Air) did have a previous code share agreement IIRC.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Here's a PNG Air report. They've also heavily invested in ATR72's but they were new, I think.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I'm happy to report that the PX Paradise lounge is still available to QF status flying QF metal.