Fiji and the UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding on co-operative marketing arrangements for air services on April 30, 2024.
The signing took place on the sidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization Global Implementation Support Symposium in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
The MOU was signed by the Permanent Secretary for Tourism and Civil Aviation, who is attending the ICAO Symposium.
Under this MOU, airlines from both States able to participate in a range of cooperative marketing arrangements including but not limited to code-sharing, and/or blocked space services.
Additionally, the airlines, under this MOU are entitled as marketing carriers to exercise own stopover rights on code-sharing operations. The cooperative marketing partnership permits Fiji and the UAE to offer and promote services on behind, intermediate, and beyond destinations.
The airlines of the UAE operates to various destinations around the world. It is noted that Emirates alone operates to 185 destinations, therefore this MOU provides the opportunity to our national airline Fiji Airways to codeshare with the UAE airlines.
The airlines of the UAE are Emirates, Etihad Airways, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, flydubai and Air Arabia.
