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Air Pacific bumps up capacity to Australia

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Fiji’s national carrier, Air Pacific, today announced it will update its f leet and expand its
Australian offering in a bid to boost capacity to the thriving island nation.

Air Pacific will add another B737-800 this November and retire its vintage B767-300ER by
mid January 2012 as the carrier moves to boost capacity for the booming number of Australian travellers.

It will also ramp up its weekly Sydney flights from seven to 13 to allow same-day connections from Nadi Airport to Fiji’s smaller islands.New flights to Sydney will
now depart Nadi every day before returning to Fiji the next day. The changes come as inbound tourist numbers to Fiji continue to soar.

More than 27,000 Australians visited the island in April alone, marking a 27.6% increase on the same time last year. Australian tourist numbers also rose by 9.4% in the past four months to 85,802, while approximately 320,000 Australians visited in 2011.

With the changes to “significantly” increase capacity from Australia to Fiji, Air Pacific managing director, Dave Pflieger said the move will allow the carrier to accomodate for the growing market. “Our fleet and 2012 schedule changes will create a much more efficient and effective network,” he said. "Overall, it will make much travel much more
convenient, which is an essential part of our plan to create a better airline for our customers.”

Tickets for AirPacific’s new schedules will be available from Wednesday, July 20.

http://www.travelweekly.com.au/getat...a3f78/pdf.aspx

Thats interesting Stefan as the 744 they use into Sydney seems to rotate very early on the outbound flights which I thought would have reflected poor load factors. Either that or the 744's just have a lot of power to use.

You've got to remember they don't have to carry trans-Pacific fuel loads, so they'd be saving a lot of weight with that alone.

True that Nigel. Never thought of it like that!!!

The loads differ depending on the time of year but they are generally pretty healthy. The fuel is one saver, the other one is the lack of freight compared to the USA services.

Isn't replacing a 763 with a 738 a decrease in Capacity?

Agreed that it will be an increase during the overlap however.

Not just any 763, but a "vintage B767-300ER". ;)

But if you increase the frequency with the 3 x B73H there will be no reduction in capacity...

I flew Air Pacific last week and both ways the flight was 100% full.

Afternoon all,

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As per 18JUL11 GDS timetable display, Air Pacific is overhauling its operation to curb its loss with fleet and operation changes starting Northern Winter season.

Its sole Boeing 767-300 aircraft, which has been in service with the airline since 1994, will be retired in mid-January 2012. It will lease 1 additional Boeing 737-800, results in network and frequency changes.

Planned changes for Northern Winter season, effective 30OCT11 unless otherwise noted, as follows:

Nadi – Sydney Boeing 767-300 service ends on 30NOV11. Overall frequency increase from Daily to 9 weekly from 17DEC11, 13 weekly from 13JAN12

FJ911/910
31OCT11 – 30NOV11 744 Day x357 763 Day 357
01DEC11 – 16DEC11 744 Daily
17DEC11 – 16JAN12 744 Daily
17JAN12 – 24MAR12 744 Day 157 73H Day x157

FJ915/914 eff 17DEC11 2 weekly (Saturday's and Sunday's), increase to 6 weekly (ecept Monday's) from 13JAN12

FJ915 NAN1830 – 2205SYD 73H 56
FJ914 SYD0630 – 1125NAN 73H 67

Nadi – Brisbane Planned Boeing 767-300ER service ends by 11JAN12. All service to be operated by Boeing 737-800, replace -700

Nadi – Melbourne eff 15JAN12 3 weekly service (peak season 4 weekly) gradually changes from 767-300 to 737-800. Currently displays 737-800 operating 2 weekly, 767 once a week

http://airlineroute.net/2011/07/18/fj-nw11/