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Continental to serve Fiji from Honolulu, Guam
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Continental will operate Fiji services utilizing a Boeing 737-800 series aircraft (Photo: Flickr/bribriTO)
Honolulu is fast becoming a focus city for Continental Airlines. In addition to previously announced service to both Honolulu and Maui from Orange County, the Houston-based airline begins service from both Honolulu and subsidiary Continental Micronesia hub Guam to Nadi, Fiji, today, December 18. The new service from Honolulu joins existing Continental nonstops to Guam, Micronesia, Houston, Los Angeles, and Newark. From Guam, Continental Micronesia serves destinations throughout the Western Pacific Rim, including ten in in the Japanese Archipelago.
The new service will be operated twice-weekly from both Guam and Honolulu with Boeing 737-800 equipment equipped with 155 seats in two classes of service. Continental joins incumbent Air Pacific on the Honolulu-Fiji route, which also operates twice-weekly services with a 737-800. Air Pacific is Fiji's national airline, based at Nadi.
Continental will join Star Alliance partner Air New Zealand in serving Nadi. SkyTeam partner Korean Air provides nonstop service from Seoul. OneWorld is not present at Nadi, although unaligned Air Pacific offers mileage cooperation with member carriers QANTAS and American Airlines.
The new service marks a return to Fiji by Continental, which included the island as part of it's Pacific network radiating from Honolulu during the 1980's. Fiji had been dropped from that service by the end of the decade, with the Australia and New Zealand services meeting their end a few years later, leaving only Continental Micronesia's yeoman services from Honolulu to Guam via the islets and atolls of Micronesia to mention. While later international expansion by the airline focused on Europe, Latin America, and Asia, the new services to Hawai'i and Fiji may prove to be only the opening steps to a return to more substantial service in the region.
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