oneworld says “Bula” to Fiji Airways as its 15th full member airline
oneworld®, the world’s airline alliance, has introduced that Fiji Airways is to develop into its fifteenth full member airline. Fiji Airways, the flag service of Fiji and the South Pacific, has been a useful presence within the oneworld alliance for the previous 5 years as a oneworld join accomplice. Throughout this time, the airline has developed cooperative hyperlinks with all oneworld member airways, paving its solution to a extra seamless integration as a full oneworld member. Fiji Airways’ transition to full membership will start instantly and will likely be accomplished throughout the subsequent 12 months.
Nat Pieper, oneworld CEO, stated: “It’s a really heat bula, or hiya, 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 have now had a extremely profitable relationship because the airline joined as a oneworld join accomplice 5 years in the past. With its large development, award successful product and companies, 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 big 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 international locations and territories globally, together with oneworld hubs at Sydney, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Fiji Hyperlink, a completely owned subsidiary of Fiji Airways, will develop into an affiliate airline of oneworld and prolong 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 lately introduced file annual income and revenues, for 2023, with 2.2 million passengers carried on its flights, providing 2.8 million seats. With an unprecedented development, elevated capability, and fleet enhancement with new state-of-the-art Airbus A350 plane, Fiji Airways is effectively set to proceed its development 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 of 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 Greatest Airline, Greatest Airline Employees and Greatest Airline Companies in Australia & the Pacific classes; got here fifteenth within the International high 100 Airline Rankings; was twelfth within the International High 20 Cabin Crew Rankings; and got here sixteenth within the International 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 12 months, Oman Air will develop into 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.