The 1700 non-management employees of Fiji Airways have each received a profit share of $5000.
This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Professor Biman Prasad in his address to Fiji Airways staff in Nadi yesterday.
“Your expertise and passion that you provide to the company and what you may think as simply a job, sends economic tremors right across the nation,” Prof Prasad said.
The country was indebted to all Fiji Airways’ employees, he said.
“I have been kept abreast of numerous groundbreaking plans that will be taking place soon to accelerate Fiji Airways to even greater heights in the world of commercial aviation and I look greatly forward to when they are announced.
“You have all demonstrated this time and again with the many awards and improved ratings, even prior to today’s announcement of the 2023 financial results.”
The minister said the efforts and sacrifices of the airline’s employees have helped people outside of their direct workflow locations by nurturing lives, paying for education and basic health services and assisting in the scaling up of the national infrastructure.
Fiji Airways CEO and managing director Andre Viljoen said the last bonus payment to staff was in 2017.
“They deserve the bonus payment for the work they do,” Mr Viljoen added.
