Air Niugini (PX, Port Moresby) resumed scheduled services to Kieta, Bougainville Island, on December 16 following a 25 year-long hiatus. The airfield was recently rebuilt after being partially destroyed during the Bougainville Civil War of the 1990s in which government security forces battled pro-independence Bougainville Revolutionary Army separatists.

“The resumption of Air Niugini services will greatly help the people of Buin, Panguna, Torokina, Wakunai and others who now have easy access for their air travel needs as they do not have to travel all the way to Buka to get on an aircraft,” airline CEO Simon Foo said. "Air Niugini fully supports the National Government initiative to restore and expand services to Aropa."

Services currently consist of a 3x weekly DHC-8-400 flight to Port Moresby.