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Fiji Link

Fiji Link
Pacifc Sun DQ-FIE (DHC-6-300 Twin Otter).jpg
Aircraft before conversion to the Fiji Link branding
IATA ICAO Callsign
FJ FJA LINK FIJI
Founded 2006
Commenced operations 2006
Hubs Nadi International Airport
Secondary hubs Nausori International Airport
Fleet size 6
Destinations 16 (See Below)
Company slogan Best value under the Sun
Parent company Fiji Airways
Headquarters Nadi International Airport
Nadi, Fiji
Key people Shaenaz Voss (Executive General Manager)
Website fijiairways.com

Fiji Link is the trade name for Fiji Airlines Limited, which is a Fijian domestic airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiji's International carrier Fiji Airways. It is headquartered at the Fiji Link office in the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji (CAAFI) compound at Nadi International Airport in Nadi, Fiji. It operates scheduled services to twelve destinations within the Fijian Islands as well as regionally within the Pacific Islands.

Don Collingwood, a pilot and businessman, founded what became Pacific Sun in 1980, under the name Sunflower Airlines, which later changed to Sun Air. It began with a single Britten Norman BN2 Islander aircraft, flying the Nadi-Taveuni route. Other than the BN2 Islanders which remained the backbone of the fleet, the airline operated a wide range of piston and turboprop aircraft including the Beechcraft BE-95 Baron, Beechcraft A65 Queen Air, de Havilland DH.114 Heron, Shorts 330, and de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. By January 2007 before official handover to Air Pacific, its fleet had grown to 12 aircraft, and the company employed nearly 140 staff.

On 31 January 2007 Sun Air was sold and handed over to current parent company Fiji Airways, formerly Air Pacific, which had to fight off a legal challenge against the handover by the now-defunct rival domestic carrier at the time, Air Fiji. Air Pacific then established the domestic airline as Fiji Airlines Limited, trading as Pacific Sun. The airline began operations with eight aircraft, including the introduction of two ATR 42–500 aircraft purchased used from Air Mauritius, along with three existing BN2 Islanders and three DHC-6 Twin Otters. However, the fleet was cut back to just four between December 2010 and June 2011 due to economic cost cutting, resulting in the withdrawal of the BN2 Islander fleet as well as one DHC-6 Twin Otter. Two additional leased DHC-6 Twin Otters were added to the fleet during June 2011 to increase the Pacific Sun fleet to six aircraft.


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