SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s Air Niugini is looking to replace its entire fleet of 25 planes in the coming years and has sought information from manufacturers and lessors about options before launching a formal tender, its managing director said on Friday.
“Everything is on the table at the moment,” Managing Director Alan Milne, a former Qantas Airways Ltd executive who took on the role in November, told Reuters in a phone interview. “The board has asked me to do what we can in the fleet simplification space.”
The airline in 2016 placed an order for four Boeing Co 737 MAX jets that had been due to arrive in two batches in late 2020 and mid-2021 before the plane was grounded globally by regulators following a deadly crash in Ethiopia in March. Read more…
