Fiji Airways to become full oneworld member and adopt AAdvantage program

[Mwenenzi]

Fiji Airlines to become full OW member 01 Apr 2025
Source :- a roundtable discussion with the CEO of oneworld, Nat Pieper,
Oneworld’s CEO on new members, a digital platform and interest in Indian and Latin American markets – Business Traveller

A growing membership
At the time of writing, the alliance counts 13 members: Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian and SriLankan Airlines. (Note that S7 remains suspended).

Forum users will be glad to hear that Fiji Airways will become the alliance’s 14th full member by the end of the first quarter of 2025.

When confirming this, Pieper also revealed it will “probably [mark] the sunset of the oneworld connect programme”, of which Fiji Airways has been a member since late 2018. “The benefits don’t justify having something separate that, frankly, we can’t explain why we have it anyway,” he added.

Indeed, remarking on his time at Alaska Airlines, he said: “I didn’t understand the benefits [of oneworld connect] in the sense of that size airline. If we want to participate, we want a seat at the table.”

Fiji Airways is also joining American Airlines’ AAdvantage loyalty programme, which Pieper said will “create great demand and, with that common currency, make it even easier for travellers to go to Fiji and help the economy prosper… The airline is core to the success of the nation. Tourism is the number one industry.”

Oman Air, which announced its intentions to join the alliance in 2022, will also be fully onboard by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
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[SYD]

QF codeshare can access the F lounge but for now, FJ code cannot. In fact, unless the FJ is booked in J, there’s no lounge access at all.

Unfortunately, the rules state that the QF code PAX can only guest someone flying on a QF, JQ, EK or OW flight number (not including FJ).

Qantas Lounge Access Eligibility | Qantas

Find out more on Qantas Lounge access eligibility whether your traveling in First, Business; are a Qantas Frequent Flyer, Qantas Club or oneworld member.

www.qantas.com

The QF website hasn’t been updated (still excludes “OW connect” flight numbers ie FJ), but as mentioned in another thread QF are now allowing WP flying FJ into the SYD F lounge (and I assume SG/QP into the J lounge). Hopefully, the new policy also applies to MEL, BNE. I don’t know if that’s been extended to AKL, LAX etc.