Air Pacific's chief executive, David Pflieger, seemed to have a less complicated job renaming his partly Qantas-owned airline.
Yesterday, the American said it was a straightforward decision to rename the airline ''Fiji Airways'', although he did toss up potential monikers such as ''Fiji Air'' and ''Fiji Airlines''.
''This dovetails perfectly with the history of the company, and becoming the national airline of Fiji,'' he said from Suva. ''We wanted the country's name in the airline.''
He pointed out ''Fiji'' was already emblazoned in smaller writing on the tails and noses of the airline's planes. ''It has been trying to become Fiji's national airline, now we are just saying, 'let's do it'.''