Settling-in Pains
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P-NG Airlines Have Settling-in Pains
Lae.
Machines break down and humans make errors, no matter whether they work for Qantas, TAA, or Ansett-ANA.
And those New Guinea Territorians who spent a lot of time complaining about Qantas and who anticipated a modern miracle by way of a perfect time-table from the new companies when they took over are due for a dis appointment.
TAA took over the internal network officially on September 1, and the transition period during take-over has underlined the many problems—large and small —with which Qantas had learned to deal efficiently, and the new companies hope to do, eventually.
But at least they’ve got two big blunders over, and probably won’t re peat them.
Were they embarrassed when the captain’s satchel and documents were left behind at Rabaul the other day and the plane had to return for them!
And more than embarrassment was felt one day in August when the southbound plane went off from Lae without the mail! It was pretty serious because there was no service the following day so all New Guinea mail for south was delayed in Lae for two days.