Air Niugini Destinations Loyalty members can now earn Points with Telikom Limited when they purchase Telikom TV plan bundles. Telikom is offering customers who are Destinations members the opportunity to earn Loyalty Points when they purchase TV plan bundles at all 18 Telikom Business Offices located throughout Papua New Guinea. The number of points earned by a Destinations member will be one point for every kina spent and is only upon presenting Destination membership card when they make a purchase from Telikom’s selected TV plan bundles. The two-year partnership arrangement between the national airline’s loyalty program and Telikom aims to encourage both members and customers to use the services and also to strengthen the partnership between both State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). Air Niugini General Manager Commercial Services, Mr Dominic Kaumu said the partnership demonstrates the importance of SOEs working together to promote growth in all areas of business. “In these difficult times, business is continuously changing for all organisations including Air Niugini and Telikom. We therefore need to work together to ensure there is continuous growth. “We must ensure our airline and telecommunications services benefit both our loyalty members and TV subscribers and with a joint partnership, we can pool our resources together to accomplishing this. “At the end of the day, we support Telikom Ltd in their business and they support us (Air Niugini) in our business,” Mr Kaumu added. Telikom Limited Acting General Manager Commercial, Silas Matoli said: “Telikom is well established throughout the country offering both fixed and mobile services with Bemobile now merging into Telikom Ltd. “The Telikom TV product is a value-added service offered over IP (internet) giving triple benefit to customers through a single connectivity, i.e. Voice, Data, TV. “Since the launch of Telikom TV product in 2020, the number of TV subscribers continues to increase daily, there are plans to offer the contents on Mobile in the near future. “Through this partnership with Air Niugini we are pleased to reward our loyal customers who are destination members,” Mr Matoli concluded. Plans are in place to extend the partnership for Loyalty members to redeem points when purchasing TV plan bundles or other products and services offered by Telikom. Telikom Limited is the recent inclusion to the Loyalty program which now brings the total Destinations corporate partners to 13. It is also the second SOE to partner with Air Niugini apart from Post PNG Limited that came on board as a sales agent for Air Niugini tickets. Air Niugini’s Destinations Loyalty Program was launched in August 2009 as PNG’s first Frequent Flyer Program with currently over 123,000 active members.