Fiji Airways takes legal action to recover payments for Israel charter flights

Fiji Airways is taking legal action to recover payments from a commercial charter arrangement for flights to Israel in 2023.

The flight was chartered to transport over 200 people to attend the Feast of Tabernacles in September, 2023.

This has been confirmed by Fiji Airways Managing Director and CEO, Andre Viljoen while responding to a question by Opposition MP and Standing Committee on Economic Affairs member, Alipate Tuicolo.

Viljoen says this was a commercial arrangement and unfortunately the customer has not paid the dues.

He says the customers were given a certain amount of leeway but they have not honoured it.

It is understood that over a million dollars remains to be paid.

Fiji Airways had earlier said that a vetting process in relation to the charterer and the various guarantors was undertaken, which included consideration of the charterer’s history of operating successful international charters and making timely payments, and the company’s management and board of directors made an informed business judgment to proceed with the charter flights.