To Land (at) Fa'a and Fa'a Away (but no swamps or chateau involved).

A short report on my requalification trip (for one of my FFPs). In the early year sales I noticed an anomaly, in that one destination that earns well over twice as much as the other sale destinations was priced at the same level (which was already a good rate). Indeed the fare was well under half the normal fare, and would be in business class to boot. So I nabbed one. I wasn't the only FTer to spot this - CHC Kiwi also booked this trip.

We had some issues with the website, for it does not handle the dateline very well. The departing flight left just after midnight (day x+1) and arrives early morning (day x). The return flight was unbookable online, so I booked the following day's flight instead (almost 2 full days at the destination). The dateline issue also prevented me booking a hotel package, since would come up as error due to the mismatch in number of nights vs scheduled departure dates. Last I checked (now almost six months later) they still have not fixed the website

BTW there are a few destinations that have flights such as this, arriving on the date before day of departure, even though most flights across the dateline do not have this issue (eastbound arriving same day or westbound arriving 1 or 2 days later).