Wide Open: Fiji Airways Business Class Awards

I think I heard you right - Miles is going to Fiji?

Now wishing I had bought an additional million miles in that SimplyMiles bonanza.

Booked. Thanks for the heads up.

Booked during high season! Thanks so much.

Thanks bro, just booked!

It's bizarre... I'm searching via Cathay Pacific, and none of the January flights in the screenshot show as available. I can see the flights, but there's zero availability...

I knew Cathay's online search tool was crap (it is unable to show availability for AA), but I didn't know it failed to show accurate availability for flights that *are* searchable within the system...

My bad-it looks like it's the connection to Sydney that's the bottleneck.

I called Alaska to change my Fiji flight from economy to business, and they told me it's not actually available. It's showing available on Alaska website, but on the phone they say it's not available. HUCA?

Booked a one-way on March 16th out of EWR through LAX and NAN (six-day layover courtesy of Alaska Air) with the international legs in business. Thanks Lucky!

NAN to MEL is the last leg in business.

Called again, same result. A different agent said they also see it showing available on alaska.com, but when they try booking it, they are getting an error message. They also put me on hold and talked to partner desk, and told me the same thing: inventory on alaska.com is not up to date, business class is not actually available. Bummer.

It still shows available on alaska.com and allows me to book up to the payment screen.

It is available… huca some more :). Despite the partner desk telling me as well the space is not there. I eventually got a competent agent that was able to ticket it herself.

For those that are unvaxxed just beware it seems like fiji airways has a mandatory vaccination policy to travel with the airline, regardless of the entry rules of your final destination country. I found availability LAX to SYD for round trip dates which work perfectly with my schedule, but due to this dumb rule I guess i'll have to pass on it. Or I might just book it and hope they scrap the requirement by the time I fly, and if not pay the $120 asia miles cancellation fee.

Availability dry up already? I can't seem to find much from LAX to NAN or from NAN to LAX on alaksa

Dang...there must be some other option for you in this situation. I'm sure it will come to me sooner or later.

Booked for next month LAX-NAN with AF miles - similar cost to AA. I can't believe AK are only 55k even the whole way to Oz, wow! Wish there was an easy way to earn points with them outwith the US.

AA.com showing lots of Main Cabin availability, but nothing in business at all.

or, just get vaccinated

I found the same issue looking on QF, Fiji-AUS not available. I wasn't rushing to book just looking out of interest. One date I searched came up with an eye-watering 100K LAX-SYD in Y. When I looked at the details there was a note, 'Your flights LAX-NAN and BNE-SYD will be in J', so NAN-BNE was the only sector in Y! (Usually this would show up as a J redemption with a note about the one Y sector.)

This has been an interesting post, with lots of people reporting seats available (and booked) through a variety of programs.

That could well have been the 'other option' that Michael couldn't immediately bring to mind!

Nothing is available now.

There's no Business Class availability. This post is worthless.

This article fails to mention that the availability on the web does not necessarily mean it is truly available. Yesterday I was trying to redeem 2 business class tickets with Fiji after purchasing Alaska points for over $600. When I tried to complete the redemptions, I got error message asking to try again. After a few attempts I gave up and called Customer Service. I was told the business class tickets were not available even though I still saw the availability on the web. The agent also added that the website is not always up to date with partner airlines availability.
*Sigh*