American announced today that Fiji Airways will adopt AAdvantage as their loyalty currency.
While several airlines use Avios as their currency, they each maintain their own award charts and quirks. In this case, Fiji will hand everything off to AAdvantage.
Copa Airlines used to do this with Continental and then United, before realizing they would be better off having their own program.
AAdvantage members will have benefits on Fiji including priority check-in, priority boarding, complimentary baggage allowance, preferred seats, and enhanced award redemption.
Hopefully that will mean more award seats, as long haul business class seats have been rare aside from occasional release glitches. More likely is that we may see dynamic (read: enhanced) pricing for Fiji awards, similar to awards for travel on American.
Fiji Airways will also become a full OneWorld member next year. The airline serves 27 destinations in 15 countries:
- Australia: Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney
- Canada: Vancouver
- Fiji: Nadi, Suva
- Kiribati: Kiritimati, Tarawa
- Hong Kong
- Japan: Tokyo
- New Caledonia: Nouméa
- New Zealand: Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington
- Samoa: Apia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands: Honiara
- Tonga: Neiafu, Nukuʻalofa
- Tuvalu: Funafuti
- United States: Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco
- Vanuatu: Port Vila
Will you fly on Fiji Airways with this new partnership?
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Definitely would use them for NY to Australia.
I went to Fiji for 10 days because of that business release glitch in 2022. Had a great time, really beautiful place.
Who doesn’t want to go to Fiji? It’s not the Maldives 😉