Poor Ng Air Service
p. 35 · Read in the full issue
Sir, —Comments by your columnist dneysider (April, p. 31) that air rvices between P-NG and Aus ilia are being hampered by the e of out-of-date planes are very le.
One of the worst features is that j Australia-New Guinea service is vays operated by the “left overs” )m the mainland runs.
We now hear that when jets are reduced on the mainland services thin Australia, Electras will be t on the New Guinea run. But ly should we have to put up with mes which are out of date for ig hauls? After all, the journey Sydney is 1,800 miles, the uivalent of a trans-Atlantic cross r >*
Why can’t we have a pure jet service?
In the airline booking offices in Sydney, they treat the New Guinea run as an “overseas” service, ironically enough.
What we require is an overseas jet service operating, say, Sydney- New Guinea-Man'ila-Hong Kong, perhaps by Cathay Pacific.
Then the local boys would wake up!
Yours, etc.,
V. T. Sanders
Port Moresby, Papua.