AIR Niugini has signed an agreement with the Education department to manage air travels for its officials including teachers.
All flights by department employees will be managed by the airline under its Universal Air Travel Plan programme. Secretary Dr Uke Kombra, pictured, told The National that the department spent an estimated K3 million annually on air travel. The agreement will cover official trips but could be extended later to also cover trips taken by the 800 department staff and about 56,000 teachers nationwide. “Official travel means when we from the department travel across the country for different activities and programmes,” he said. “It (includes) teachers who we bring in for things such as writing exams. We discussed the possibility of including teachers and public servants’ leave fares. “At the moment, we have an arrangement where the person chooses which travel agent to use. “We want to give them that flexibility and freedom of choice. Also it is a new programme and we want to test it out first. If we find value in it, then we will extend it to the next levels and the numbers will be even bigger.” The airline has 3100 customers covered under the plan including companies and individuals. Air Niugini general manger commercial Dominic Kaumu said the airline wanted to make travelling easier . The National
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CROISE MITA MANFUNGE
5/30/2017 01:41:42 am
We hard working teachers want all our by annually leave entitlement to be paid directly into our designated personal account.its up to the individual teachers to make decision on how they want to use it.we don't need third party people to controlled our leave entitlement.The secretary can make this arrangement for his Departmental officers in the education department ,but not us the teacher .What is he,s point here and what is the message that he is trying to tells us the poor hard working teachers in the remotes part of rural areas in Papua New Guinea.My advice to him is simple just PAY all Our BY- ANNUAL LEAVE ENTITLEMENT into our personal ACCOUNTS.we do not need petty politics. I also call on PNGTA to wake up from its grave yard and do something about it.
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