iji Airways has bolstered its world footprint with the launch of its longest flight and first-ever direct service between Dallas Fort Price, Texas and Nadi, Fiji.

The brand new service operates thrice per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays initially with seamless connections from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific through Fiji.

The inaugural 13-hour flight from Nadi, Fiji touched down at Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport this week (10 Dec) and was greeted with a water cannon salute because it taxied to the gate with excited passengers and esteemed visitors onboard.

Fiji Airways is working the state-of-the-art Airbus A350-900 XWB plane on this new route, providing premium seating for 334 prospects, together with 33 lie-flat, aisle-access enterprise class seats for final consolation and comfort.

“With the launch of this new route, Fiji Airways is considerably enhancing connectivity throughout North America, providing Australians extra handy journey choices with seamless connections from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, and Cairns beginning subsequent April,” mentioned Fiji Airways CEO and Managing Director, Andre Viljoen.

“This growth not solely opens doorways for Australian travellers but in addition strengthens the inbound market, bringing extra guests from Texas and past to expertise the great thing about Fiji and Australia.

“In step with our mission, ‘We Fly for Fiji,’ this new service will deliver as much as 1,000 passengers to Fiji every week, supporting our nation’s tourism trade and creating new avenues for enterprise collaboration between our two nations.

“With over 2,000 further seats per week added to our community, we’re excited to see robust demand already constructing in each instructions.”

DFW’s Chief Government Officer, Sean Donohue mentioned “DFW is worked up so as to add the attractive islands of Fiji to our rising portfolio of worldwide locations, bringing North Texas nonstop entry to a tropical paradise and connecting Nadi with DFW’s community of greater than 250 locations world wide.”

Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport is presently ranked the second most linked airport on the earth, offering Fiji Airways passengers with simpler entry to greater than 250 world locations.

The DFW-NAN route strengthens Fiji Airways’ increasing presence in North America, becoming a member of current providers to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Vancouver to be the fifth direct route within the North American area

“Dallas Fort Price serves as a key strategic hub for us, providing passengers entry to over 250 cities worldwide, and unlocking thrilling journey and enterprise alternatives,” Viljoen mentioned.

This new route additionally marks Fiji Airways’ twenty sixth worldwide direct route, and with the airline’s rising community, will join seamlessly with the airline’s twenty seventh direct service to Cairns, Australia launching from tenth April 2025.

Fiji Airways’ fleet of 21 trendy plane already advantages from codeshare and interline partnerships with American Airways, Alaska Airways, JetBlue, Porter Airways and others.

The brand new DFW-NAN service, together with the airline’s upcoming adoption of American Airways’ AAdvantage loyalty program subsequent yr and full oneworld membership from thirty first March 2025, will open up extra journey advantages for Fiji Airways’ prospects.

To rejoice the launch of the service, Fiji Airways is providing return flights from Australia to Dallas Fort Price from simply AU$1,599 per individual through Nadi, Fiji accessible till seventeenth December 2024.