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• Air Pacific doubles fleet size to Fiji
  Air Pacific is planning to spend almost $1 billion to buy three B787-9 Dreamliners, powered by GE GEnX engines, for delivery in 2016 and 2017.  This is the biggest business transaction in the history of Fiji.
  
  These are in addition to the five B787-9 Dreamliners purchased by Air Pacific for delivery in 2011 and 2012.
  
  The aircraft have a list price of FJ$927 million (US$580m). This brings the total fleet order to F$2.4 billion, the largest transaction ever undertaken by a Fiji company.
  
  Last week, media reports quoted Air Pacific as saying that it was facing 15-20 month delay in getting its new Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
  
  Campbell was quoted as saying said the Fiji carrier was in talks about extending leases on its Boeing 747 and 767 wide-body airliners to ensure adequate capacity.
  
  Boeing earlier announced that there would be delays in deliveries of its new airliner because of manufacturing and certification issues. (2008/04/30)  More info here.

• Pacific Blue increases flights to Fiji
  Pacific Blue Airlines, Virgin Blue’s international carrier, will increase its flights from Australia to Fiji from June this year with the introduction of two new services.

  The additions will now increase Virgin Blue’s 20 non-stop flights to and from Sydney and Brisbane to 24 flights a week from June 17, 2008.  

  Stefan Pichler, the chief commercial officer of Virgin Blue, Australia’s second biggest airline, who announced this in a press meet today afternoon, attributed the growth to increasing demand for flights to Fiji by Australian holiday makers.

  He revealed recent provisional statistics that showed Fiji was in the midst of a tourism “sweet spot” for Aussie travelers.

  The executives of Virgin Blue are currently in the country holding meetings with key stakeholders of the aviation industry to discuss Pacific Blue’s growth plans for the country.

  Pichler says the decision to boost services follows the ongoing and steady demand for Fiji flights, with strong growth experienced for direct flights from Sydney to Brisbane. It was also revealed that the number of Australian residents traveling to Fiji had increased by 23.4 per cent.

  He said since Pacific Blue launched flights in September 2004 to March this year, the airline has delivered some 161,000 Australian tourists to Fiji, equivalent to the injection of over $252 million in the local economy.

  He also admitted Fiji was presently a major destination for Virgin Blue’s operations highlighting a strong performance in passenger market growth.

  “The Brisbane-Fiji passenger market has grown by 66,684 passengers or 82 per cent since Pacific Blue’s entry on this route,” Pichler said.

  “The Sydney-Fiji passenger market has grown by 59,143 passengers (26 per cent).”

  It is these statistics that Pacific Blue said boosted its confidence to add two weekly services from Brisbane to Fiji on Tuesdays and Saturdays from June 17 this year, taking it to a daily flight frequency.

  Interim Tourism Minister Tom Ricketts said Fiji remained a developing nation with an important tourism sector heavily dependent on air services to bring visitors to and carry them within islands of the destination.   

  “There are also new opportunities for encouraging new carriers while ensuring the ongoing viability and growth of its national carrier. The latter is one that should be supported and encouraged as it contributes to the nation interest in growing tourism arrivals from traditional and new markets to reap the economic benefit,” he said. (2008/04/17)  More info here.
   
• Australian tourists break arrival records in Fiji
  According to the cooperative efforts made by the Fiji Islands Visitors Bureau and its marketing partners, Fiji has become the latest hot-spot holiday destination for Australian tourists showing a strong rise in Australian visitors in its first quarter.
           
  The Bureau’s regional director, Australia, Paresh Pant, said he was pleased with the substantial results of the first quarter 2008 and he was confident of achieving an arrivals target of 209,000 for the calendar year.
          
   “Late last year, when we were confident we would achieve more than 198,000 Australian visitors for the 2007 calendar year, we initiated meetings with some of our traditional partners and agreed on a broad three-year cooperative plan which could be achieved despite limited resources,” he said. “The achievements to date are the early results of that.”
  
   In January this year the arrival of 19,121 Australians was a 35 per cent improvement on the same month last year and February arrivals of 13,123 was an improvement of about 48 per cent. Australian visitor arrivals had been setting monthly records since September 2007, Mr Pant said.
  
   In addition to Fiji’s traditional holiday target market from Australia, Mr Pant said the Bureau was aggressively targeting the meetings, incentives and conferences sector (MICE) with the expectation of increasing last year’s total large groups business – of which MICE was a significant component – of about 11,000 to about 18,000 visitors

  Mr Pant confirmed two major retail travel conferences for 2008, both scheduled for August, which would see about 1,000 travel agents in Fiji, further endorsing the destination’s reputation of relaxation and security. (2008/04/04) More info here.

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