Fiji Airways A330 ultra long flight review

Fiji airways is another new airline I tried in 2025, along with Azerbaijan Air & Star Air. I flew Fiji Airways to Fiji from Singapore & back. If you wish to visit Fiji, connecting to Fiji airways is the only option, as no other major international airlines seem to be flying to Fiji regularly- probably they don't have the volume to make regular flight viable. Drawback of this is in case Fiji airways cancels a flight, you may be stuck till they provide an alternative. While Fiji is visa free for Indians, most nearby countries- Australia, USA, NZ etc Indians need visa even to transit. So your flight options to Fiji will be very limited.

Fiji Airways operates widebody aircrafts to US West Coast, Australia, Singapore etc. I could book a one stop Hyderabad to Nadi via Singapore flight. The flight was very expensive on Singapore airline and Fiji Airways official website, so I had to book it on GoIbibo- the ticket cost me about 69000 INR. My most expensive flight ticket so far- but if I calculate on a "per flying hour" basis, it is not much. 69000 for 30 hours of flying (4 hours Hyd to Singapore, 11 hours SIN to Nadi & return) =  2300 INR per hour of flying, which is pretty decent. This was a pre covid rate so I booked one when I saw one.

Web check-in: Since my ticket included flights operated by Singapore airline + Fiji, I could not do web check-in in one go. For the onward journey I could do check in on Singapore airline website first, had to wait half day for Fiji airways check in to open and then go to FIji airways web and check in for second leg. On the way back website didn't allow me to check in into SIN-HYD leg, even Singapore airline website sent a notification saying web check in is open but would not let me check -in. Had to do check-in at airport. I think airlines should be able to manage this check in process better.  SQ also sends mailers saying check in open but when you try, website says sorry, can't process. 

Food: Fiji Airways is a full service airline. My 10 hour marathon flight got me 1 dinner and 1 breakfast with ample time in between to sleep. breakfast included Upma and Vada, which was amazing. Return journey I got decent meals for lunch & dinner.

Seat Selection: Fiji airways doesn't allow complementary seat selection though. But I got one window seat allocated during onward journey. Return trip an aisle seat was assigned, could get it changed to window during check in for free.

Fiji airways Utility Kit: Only blanket, pillow and earphone is given. No eye cover, no dental kit etc. No hot towel to wash hands on arrival.

Entertainment: Was ok, screens were old, as aircraft is 10+ years old. Singapore Airline A350 had much bigger, clearer screen in comparison.

Flight was not full, I could see at least 10% seats vacant. I got empty seat by the side on both trips.

Most flights of Fiji Airways operate on time. There is less than 10% chance of major delay.

Overall it was good to experience Fiji Airways and our trip to Fiji was nice.