If Fiji is in your bucket checklist, there’ll quickly be a brand new technique to get there.
Fiji Airways introduced Wednesday that it’s going to begin a brand new nonstop flight from Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) to Nadi Worldwide Airport (NAN) in Fiji. The service formally filed for permission to function this new route with the U.S. Division of Transportation a couple of month in the past.
The brand new three-times-weekly service will begin Dec. 10. Flights will function on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Flights from Dallas will depart at 9:55 p.m. and arrive in Fiji at 5:20 a.m. two days later. The eastbound flight from Fiji takes off at 9:15 p.m. and arrives in Dallas at 3:20 p.m. on the identical day.
The airline will deploy a 334-seat Airbus A350-900 jet to Dallas. Fiji’s A350 contains a aggressive business-class product organized throughout 9 rows in a 1-2-1 reverse herringbone configuration.
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Every business-class traveler will get pleasure from direct aisle entry, in addition to 17-inch TV screens, energy retailers and USB ports.
Fiji’s A350s additionally function 301 economic system seats, 39 of which supply further legroom.
“Introducing a direct service between Fiji and Dallas is a extremely thrilling milestone for Fiji Airways, as we proceed to extend Fiji’s connectivity with the USA and past providing our company extra journey choices,” Fiji Airways CEO Andre Viljoen stated in an announcement.
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Talking of a extremely thrilling milestone, the brand new Fiji Airways route will develop into the service’s longest flight but. At 6,625 miles, the Dallas-to-Nadi route is 760 miles longer than the airline’s present longest to Vancouver, British Columbia. (Flights will take round 13 hours.) Moreover, Dallas will develop into the airline’s fourth U.S. vacation spot, becoming a member of Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Fiji’s enlargement comes only a few weeks after the airline introduced it will undertake the American Airways AAdvantage loyalty program as its personal. Vacationers will be capable to earn and redeem AAdvantage miles from all Fiji flights and in addition get pleasure from reciprocal loyalty advantages for elite members. It is also doable that American Airways would possibly debut reciprocal systemwide improve redemption on Fiji Airways flights.
Along with the AAdvantage information, Fiji Airways just lately obtained approval to develop into the latest member of the Oneworld airline alliance by 2025. American Airways is a founding member of this alliance.
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As Fiji’s flag service, Fiji Airways’ core mission is to spice up tourism to the archipelago within the South Pacific. With the brand new DFW route, vacationers can guide tons of of one-stop itineraries from factors throughout the U.S. to Fiji, doubtless growing the enchantment of a visit to Fiji for a lot of U.S.-based vacationers. That is very true for flyers based mostly on the East Coast, who at present must take a transcontinental flight to connect with a nonstop route from the U.S. to Fiji.
Furthermore, Fiji Airways has traditionally additionally used its strategic location within the South Pacific to supply engaging fares for connections past Nadi to close by locations, together with Australia and New Zealand. This new route would possibly probably result in decrease fares on key transpacific itineraries.
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