The Hong Kong Boeing 767 flights will commence on Saturday.

The twice weekly flights will replace Air Pacific's three weekly Boeing 767 flights between Nadi and Tokyo, Japan that was withdrawn at the end of March, this year.

This was because of the declining demand on the route over the past four years.

Air Pacific said in October last year it incurred losses on the route exceeding $35 million.

Mr John Campbell, yesterday said they were looking forward to the new service.

Mr Campbell said the early stage was on target as what they had expected.

"We hope that it's going to deliver no more loss than we budgeted for. Hopefully we see profit within the couple of years for that flight but very importantly, we are getting spread of visitors that we anticipated," he said.

Mr Campbell said the service was planned to attract business from Europe, United Kingdom, India, China, Hong Kong and Asia.

This is in support of their planning with demand growing steadily in line with Air Pacific's targets.

Mr Campbell is aware of Continental Micronesia Airline attention in the Japanese market.

"There will be some travellers between Japan and Fiji connecting via Hong Kong but the majority of Japanese visitors will continue to travel with Korean Airlines via Seoul and potentially with Continental Micronesia from Guam.