Airfare of the Week: Fiji Airways Business Nadi-Los Angeles $4,873 Return

If you want to fly Business Class from Australia to Los Angeles, direct flights typically start from around AU$10,000 return. Even during Qantas’ recent Black Friday Travel Week Sale, a return Qantas Business flight from Sydney to LA would have cost no less than AU$7,599.

This week’s Airfare of the Week belongs to Fiji Airways, which regularly has sub-AU$5,000 Business Class fares available from Nadi (NAN) to Los Angeles (LAX), as well as other North American destinations like Vancouver (YVR).

Simply purchase a cheap positioning flight or use points to get between Australia and Fiji on easy daytime flights. Then, fly Business Class for the long overnight sectors between Fiji and North America – while saving thousands of dollars.

Fiji Airways is a Oneworld alliance member, so you can earn Qantas Frequent Flyer points & status credits. If you’d like to maximise your status credits, you can even travel from Fiji to North America via Hong Kong (using fellow Oneworld airline Cathay Pacific between Hong Kong and North America).

Here are the full details of this great Fiji Airways Business Class airfare from Nadi to Los Angeles…

Sample routings & pricing

Here’s an example of a simple round-trip Business fare from Nadi to Los Angeles that you could book on the Fiji Airways website:

If you want to maximise your points and status credits, there’s also a variation of this fare via Hong Kong, flying Fiji Airways and Cathay Pacific. For example, you could book something like this on the Cathay Pacific website, or through a travel agent:

Travel dates & fare rules

Here are the details of this airfare:

• Free stopovers are permitted (up to 2 in each direction)
• This is a year-round fare with no listed expiry date

On-board product

Fiji Airways flies Airbus A350-900s with an excellent lie-flat Business Class product on the Nadi-Los Angeles route.

The airline uses a mix of Airbus A350s and Airbus A330s, which feature angle-flat beds in Business Class, on other long-haul routes.

Earning points & status credits with this airfare

The Fiji Airways Business deal from Nadi to Los Angeles (non-stop) books into “I” class. You could expect to earn 14,250 Qantas Points and 280 status credits on a round-trip NAN-LAX Business fare.

If you choose to fly from Nadi to Vancouver via Hong Kong in Business, you’d be booking a Cathay Pacific “D” class fare. For this, you’d earn 28,500 Qantas Points and 560 status credits on a round-trip.

You could also choose to credit these flights to another Oneworld program, such as American Airlines AAdvantage (which happens to be the frequent flyer program that Fiji Airways itself uses).

Join the discussion on the AFF forum

Have you booked this airfare, or do you have a question about it?

Join the discussion on the Australian Frequent Flyer (AFF) forum! On our dedicated “Airfare of the Week” thread, you can also find more information about how to book these fares or suggest a great airfare deal to be featured in a future Airfare of the Week article.