oneworld®, the world’s airline alliance, has introduced that Fiji Airways is to grow to be its fifteenth full member airline. Fiji Airways, the flag provider of Fiji and the South Pacific, has been a helpful presence within the oneworld alliance for the previous 5 years as a oneworld join companion. Throughout this time, the airline has developed cooperative hyperlinks with all oneworld member airways, paving its strategy to a extra seamless integration as a full oneworld member. Fiji Airways’ transition to full membership will begin instantly and can be accomplished throughout the subsequent 12 months.
Nat Pieper, oneworld CEO, stated: “It’s a really heat bula, or whats up, to Fiji Airways as we welcome them as our fifteenth full member airline within the oneworld alliance. Fiji Airways is already a part of the oneworld household, as we’ve had a extremely profitable relationship because the airline joined as a oneworld join companion 5 years in the past. With its large progress, award profitable product and providers, and acceleration of connections with all oneworld member airways, Fiji Airways will strengthen our place because the premier airline alliance for worldwide international travellers.”
Andre Viljoen, the Managing Director, and CEO of Fiji Airways, added: “I’m extraordinarily proud to announce our full membership within the award-winning oneworld alliance, marking a major step in our dedication to offering unparalleled service and connectivity. As a full member airline, we’re excited to reinforce the journey expertise for oneworld alliance frequent flyers, providing higher accessibility to Fiji and the South Pacific, and making certain seamless connections and memorable journeys for Fiji Airways prospects throughout the alliance community.”
Fiji Airways, with its hub at Nadi Worldwide Airport, serves 26 locations in 15 nations and territories globally, together with oneworld hubs at Sydney, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Fiji Hyperlink, an entirely owned subsidiary of Fiji Airways, will grow to be an affiliate airline of oneworld and lengthen the alliance’s community even additional by bringing its home flights to Suva, Nadi, Labasa, Taveuni and Kadavu; in addition to regionally to the Pacific Island nations of Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Fiji Airways just lately introduced file annual earnings and revenues, for 2023, with 2.2 million passengers carried on its flights, providing 2.8 million seats. With an unprecedented progress, elevated capability, and fleet enhancement with new state-of-the-art Airbus A350 plane, Fiji Airways is nicely set to proceed its progress now as a full oneworld member airline, providing much more flights and new routes in response to the rising buyer demand.
As a full oneworld member airline, Fiji Airways will present oneworld Emerald, Sapphire, and Ruby prospects with a full suite of oneworld advantages together with incomes and redeeming miles, incomes standing factors, precedence check-in and boarding and lounge entry. Likewise, Fiji Airways’ high tier prospects will be capable to achieve entry to all oneworld precedence advantages together with a community of practically 700 enterprise and Top quality lounges globally, in addition to newly opened oneworld branded lounges in Amsterdam’s Schiphol and Seoul’s Incheon Airports.
Fiji Airways initially commenced flying on 1st September 1951 and now has a fleet of 21 plane, together with Airbus A350s, Airbus A330s and Boeing 737s.
On the 2023 Skytrax Awards, Fiji Airways won the Finest Airline, Finest Airline Employees and Finest Airline Providers in Australia & the Pacific classes; got here fifteenth within the World high 100 Airline Rankings; was twelfth within the World High 20 Cabin Crew Rankings; and got here sixteenth within the World High Cleanest Airline Rankings.
2024 marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the oneworld alliance, which was based in 1999 by American Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas. Later this yr, Oman Air will grow to be the 14th member airline of the alliance, becoming a member of Alaska Airways, American Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airways, Malaysia Airways, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian and SriLankan Airways.