Fiji Airways announces Cairns flights

[Harrison_133]

Fiji Airways will commence flights between Nadi and Cairns on 10 April 2025, operating 3 times a week on the 737 MAX 8.

Schedule:
FJ971 NAN 0830 CNS 1125 Tue, Thu, Sat
FJ970 CNS 1225 NAN 1835 Tue, Thu, Sat

More here: https://www.fijiairways.com/en-au/media-centre/new-direct-service-between-nadi-and-cairns

 

[HS-TQE]

Interesting part is that the new conservative (L/NP) state tourism minister states that the Queensland Governmenr supports the new services as they formulate a 'new' 20 year long term 'Tourism Plan' yet doesn't mention the AAIF partial taxpayer funded scheme of the previous ALP state government.

I'm speculating this may suggest the joint taxpayer/airport funded AAIF may gradually get replaced with another funding scheme.

 

[HS-TQE]

Fiji Airways will commence flights between Nadi and Cairns on 10 April 2025, operating 3 times a week on the 737 MAX 8.

Schedule:
FJ971 NAN 0830 CNS 1125 Tue, Thu, Sat
FJ970 CNS 1225 NAN 1835 Tue, Thu, Sat

More here: https://www.fijiairways.com/en-au/media-centre/new-direct-service-between-nadi-and-cairns

Timings suggest this connects with the North American bank in both directions. I wouldn't be surprised if NQ Tourism are working together with Fiji Tourism to promote their regions to the wider North America.

 

[GrahamBRI]

Qantas appears to have already been loaded with classic reward availability - 1xJ and 7xY on most (maybe all) days.

 

[SYD]

Any word if these will see codeshares in the future?

Nothing visible on QF (for now).

 

[Mattg]

Any word if these will see see codeshares in the future?

Nothing visible on QF (for now).

Most likely there will be QF codeshares eventually, but it might take a while. That was the case when FJ launched CBR-NAN, anyway.