Western Sydney travellers will soon have a good reason to mix work with a holiday. Fiji Airways will start direct flights between Nadi and Western Sydney International Airport on 19 March 2027.
The service will run three times a week: Monday, Friday and Sunday. Fiji Airways will use Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline says the route will add more than 53,000 seats a year. It will sit beside its current Nadi flights from Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport.
Corporate Traveller, the SME travel arm of Flight Centre Travel Group, says the new route should help both firms and staff in Western Sydney.
Tom Walley, Global Managing Director at Corporate Traveller, said the service would give travellers more choice. It also makes it easier to add a holiday to a work trip, now widely known as “bleisure” travel.
“This is a welcome addition to the Pacific network. It’s a meaningful step for stronger business and trade ties between our two countries, and we expect local businesses to benefit,” Walley said.
The trend is already strong. Corporate Traveller has said that three in four of its SME customers report that staff add leisure time to business trips.
For many people in Western Sydney, the biggest gain may be simple: less time crossing town to catch a Pacific flight from Kingsford Smith. Anyone who has watched the clock while stuck in Sydney traffic will know the feeling.
The route also gives Fiji Airways another way to move passengers through Nadi. From there, travellers can fly on to other parts of Fiji, the wider Pacific and North America.
Australia is Fiji’s largest source market. Fiji Airways says the new link will support tourism, trade and work travel. It should also make family visits easier for Western Sydney’s large Fijian and Pacific communities.
For travel advisors and corporate travel managers, the sales pitch almost writes itself. A work trip can now include a Fiji stopover, a few beach days, or an onward flight.
The old line was “work hard, play hard”.
From March 2027, Western Sydney may prefer: work hard, holiday harder.
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