Pionair wins PNG route approval
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- Monday, 11 October 2010
After some delay, it has won twice-weekly Convair 580 freighter services – an allocation of 12 tonnes in each direction – between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
It has long operated cargo charters to PNG and this work will continue, notably in support of PNG resource development projects.
Pionair initially sought an 18 tonnes allocation but later downsized this to 12.
IASC checked, as usual, with the Department of Infrastructure and Transport to ascertain whether Pionair could operate the services. The department eventually issued an international airline licence after supplementary material was forthcoming from Pionair.
The situation was complicated by Pionair being the subject of a DoCA, with an administrator appointed. However, the administrator was happy for an allocation to be granted and IASC, after some consideration, agreed.
We’ll have more details of this in our October print edition.
