Several weeks ago, Fiji Airways revealed plans to launch its longest route yet, offering additional capacity to the United States. There’s now an exciting update, as the flight is on sale. Best of all, there’s plenty of award availability, including in business class.
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Hope this reminder turns on a light bulb, Fiji Airways is 49% owned by QF. No surprise then.
Good luck finding a couple of biz class award seats on Fiji. Used to be able to find seats on AA out of Honolulu pretty easily pre-COVID, have found nothing since.
Lucky did a nice article on award space on FJ maybe late 2022 or early 2023. It isn’t always available but it certainly is available
wow I was looking for award availability yesterday and there was zero, now it's wide open.
I tried to add a stopover to SYD and the price jumps up to 130k AS miles. Is this right?
I'm getting 130k too and that doesn't seem right, but not sure why its pricing like that.
AS System is so broken that how it is broken makes no sense. Only direct DFW-NAN gets 75k. If you add any leg on top of this, you get 130k, regardless of distance. Thanks AS!
AS system is broken for other partner awards as well. Same story with Starlux - only flights to-from TPE price correctly, can't add a stopover or a connection.
has anyone successfully ticketed one of these? I keep trying and the system just keeps kicking me back to the calendar page and I cannot actually finish booking the reservation...
Looks like most biz availability for 2 is sold out on miles until April/May when booking thru AA
The schedule also allows time a rotation to SYD, MEL, or AKL between North America trips. Perfect.
Sadly there were not 2 J awards DFW-NAN on any day from now until end of schedule. So "wide open" is probably not how I would describe it.
As a resident of Fort Worth I am SO excited about this development. Now that OneWorld is based in Fort Worth alongside American Airlines, hopefully we will see even more current & future OW partners fly from DFW. Currently of the 14 members (will be 15 when Fiji becomes a member) 8 (soon to be 9) fly from here. AA, Japan Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Finnair, Iberia, British Airways, Alaska, and now Fiji Airways. Cathay Pacific did at one point as well, but now only does freight at this time. Exciting times to live in the 12th largest city in the U.S.! We'll pass Austin TX and Jacksonville Florida very, VERY soon and will be the 10th largest on our own, without Dallas! (Current Population numbers, Ft. Worth~978k, Austin~979k, Jacksonville~985k) On average, Fort Worth is growing nearly 7% A YEAR, the fastest growth of ANY of the top 75 cities in the U.S. by population.
Mid-1970, I flew on the very first 747 to visit the SW, a Pan Am demo, first 'airborne' fashion show, thousands of people at Great SW Airport in FTW with thumbs-down as we took off -- that must have inspired Braniff, they had the absolutely nuts idea they could get a huge orange 747, fly it DFW-HNL daily and make money. Even layout a big suckling pig with an apple in its mouth. Everybody knew to fly to Hawaii you had to connect on the West Coast. Fiji is even more improbable, except there's around 8MILLION people in DFW looking to do something different.
Rather than 200,000-400,000 miles in J from US-SYD I just did 80,000 on this flight with a $200 revenue flight to SYD (extra taxes if NAN-SYD were available is another $100 anyway) so this is quite a bargain for the Kangaroo route. Only downside is an extra flight and maybe baggage hassles because it's not one award PNR.
I can wait to see Fiji Airways fly to Dallas. Also it will be Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on Airbus A350.
I think All biz passengers can get access to the Flagship Lounge depending if your on a A350 or A330.