{"id":11405,"date":"2013-03-25T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/fiji-airways-new-a330-island-of-taveuni\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:51:00","slug":"fiji-airways-new-a330-island-of-taveuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/fiji-airways-new-a330-island-of-taveuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Airways new A330 &#8216;Island of Taveuni&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&#038;ik=765dc0289e&#038;view=att&#038;th=13d9f03fe0a764d4&#038;attid=0.4&#038;disp=emb&#038;zw&#038;atsh=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyrefV44HcmEJPFdac3MODNwJ5JTw6-vCO9YKVbxqzbCpxtQl5\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&#038;ik=765dc0289e&#038;view=att&#038;th=13d9f03fe0a764d4&#038;attid=0.4&#038;disp=emb&#038;zw&#038;atsh=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Fiji Airways &#8216;Island of Taveuni&#8217; &#8211; Soaring to New Horizons <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Completing an 18-month journey from order to delivery, Air Pacific\u2019s first brand new Airbus A330-200 arrived at the airline\u2019s base of operations in Nadi, Fiji from Airbus\u2019 facility in Toulouse, France.  The aircraft represents state-of-the-art comfort, best-in-class amenities, and the strong future of Air Pacific, which is being renamed \u2018Fiji Airways\u2019 in June of 2013. The first of three Airbus A330s ordered in October 2011 and designed exclusively for Fiji\u2019s national carrier\u2014a first for the airline, the new aircraft carries the new \u2018Fiji Airways\u2019 branding that is authentic, distinctive, and true to the airline\u2019s Fijian roots.  The aircraft is named after one of Fiji\u2019s 333 beautiful islands, Taveuni, also known as \u2018The Garden Island.\u2019  The airline\u2019s second will be named Namuka-i-Lau, paying homage to Makereta Matemosi who designed the new identity for Fiji Airways and while the name of the third A330s are scheduled to arrive in May and November, respectively will be revealed later.  By the end of 2013, Air Pacific will have retired its existing fleet of Boeing 747s, repainted and upgraded all of its Boeing 737s, rolled out new uniforms, and introduced a number of new customer service enhancements to reflect and elevate the new brand of \u2018Fiji Airways\u2019 which will launch in June of 2013. (Source: Air Pacific Media Center 19 March 2013) <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&#038;ik=765dc0289e&#038;view=att&#038;th=13d9f03fe0a764d4&#038;attid=0.4&#038;disp=emb&#038;zw&#038;atsh=1\" imageanchor=\"1\"><br \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji Airways &#8216;Island of Taveuni&#8217; &#8211; Soaring to New Horizons Completing an 18-month journey from order to delivery, Air Pacific\u2019s first brand new Airbus A330-200 arrived at the airline\u2019s base of operations in Nadi, Fiji from Airbus\u2019 facility in Toulouse, France. The aircraft represents state-of-the-art comfort, best-in-class amenities, and the strong future of Air Pacific, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fiji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}