If you’ve ever tried booking a business-class seat to Australia, New Zealand or another Pacific island with points or miles, you might know the feeling: eye-watering points requirements thanks to dynamic pricing, or just nonexistent availability.
I was in the same position recently — searching eight months in advance for a flight from Australia to the U.S. and finding nothing that would get me there comfortably at a reasonable price.
Rather than give up, I set an award alert on this handy tool to notify me the moment a business-class seat opened up on any Fiji Airways route from its Pacific hub at Nadi International Airport (NAN) to the mainland U.S.
Then I forgot about it entirely.
A month later, I woke up to a very pleasant surprise — a text message that a seat had become available. Within minutes, I had booked a lie-flat seat from Fiji to Dallas for 75,000 Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards points, a terrific price for a 12-hour flight in comfort.
The surprise didn’t end there. My flight on Fiji Airways (a Oneworld alliance member I hadn’t flown before) turned out to be one of the best business-class experiences I’ve had in my dozens of premium flights.
The hospitality rivaled that on award-winning airlines like Singapore Airlines, the dine-on-demand food was restaurant quality, and the Fijian touches like pineapple-scented hot towels and edible flowers throughout the flight had me in vacation mode from the moment I boarded.
Spending a few days in Fiji between flights wasn’t a tough sell, either.
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