{"id":33691,"date":"2006-07-27T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/07\/27\/air-niugini-will-resume-hk-flights\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T22:05:18","slug":"air-niugini-will-resume-hk-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/07\/27\/33691\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Niugini Will Resume HK Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Niugini plans to restart flights to Hong Kong starting August 8.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer of Air Niugini, Wasantha Kumarasiri, announced the service to Hong Kong will operate as an extension to the Manila flight and will now depart from Port Moresby on a Tuesday in lieu of the existing Wednesday service. The return flight will also be via Manila on Wednesday evening, arriving in Port Moresby early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the resumption of its service to Hong Kong, Kumarasiri said that Air Niugini has been able to negotiate with Air New Zealand, its current engineering service provider, to alter the existing arrangement for aircraft engineering maintenance checks to be conducted in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Maintenance of the B767 will be carried out by HAECO (Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company) under the maintenance agreement with Air New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are excited about returning to Hong Kong as this opens up trade and business opportunities as well as new source market for tourism from China for the country. With Hong Kong airport being one of the busiest in Asia, Air Niugini's scheduled service into Hong Kong offers a number of excellent options for same day connections to and from Europe, the Middle East, India and the United States,\" Kumarasiri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Niugini plans to restart flights to Hong Kong starting August 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}