Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

flights from Fiji to UK

Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Fiji

Hi people

I'm going to be in Fiji in the first week of August having sailed there from san francisco.

Does anyone have any knowledge/advice on buying flights from fiji to London, ie. cost, regularity (is it one flight per week or daily?), where you change (australia?) or just any info whatsoever as I've never been to this part of the world before.

Any help grealty appreciated!

I am pretty sure your best bet is flying via Australia.
Check the websites of Air Pacific and Virgin Blue for a ticket from Nadi to Sydney.
Once there, you have lots of airlines for onward travel London, many of which should allow a stopover in SE Asia if you wish. In fact you could even go all the way from AU to London (via Kuala Lumpur) low-cost, using Malaysian carrier Air Asia.

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Laszlo is right except that Air AsiaX doesn't service Sydney. They fly out of Melbourne and Brisbane and Perth. Best bet for flights out of Nadi will be to Melbourne or Brisbane if using Air Asia X.

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Laszlo is right except that Air AsiaX doesn't service Sydney. They fly out of Melbourne and Brisbane and Perth. Best bet for flights out of Nadi will be to Melbourne or Brisbane if using Air Asia X.

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Laszlo is right except that Air AsiaX doesn't service Sydney. They fly out of Melbourne and Brisbane and Perth. Best bet for flights out of Nadi will be to Melbourne or Brisbane if using Air Asia X.

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OOPs Correction. They DONT fly to Brisbane, it is actually to the Gold Coast and Melbourne and Perth. The Gold Coast is about 50km from Brisbane.

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I initially mentioned Sydney, as it offers the largest number of international connections. Of course not Air Asia, but if someone does make an AU stopover and decides to use AA, making their way to Melbourne or the Gold Coast/Brisbane is hardly a big problem - and, already mentioned, both are accessible on direct flights from Nadi, too.

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Wouldn't Nadi-LA-London with Air Pacific and Air New Zealand be competitive price-wise? 3-4 times a week, I thought. Flight times would possibly be shorter as well.

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I just assumed, from the OP, that this poster would prefer to return home via AU, rather than the US that he/she had just visited before Fiji.
If that's not the case, returning via the US is a definite possiblity.

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