SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air passenger traffic fell 7.7 percent in 2021 from a year earlier due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the transport ministry said Thursday. A total of 36.36 million passengers, including 3.21 million on international routes, flew with full-service and low-cost carriers in 2021 mainly for business purposes, [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air passenger traffic fell 29 percent in the first half from a year earlier amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, the transport ministry said Thursday. From January to June, the number of passengers on domestic and international routes fell to 16.67 million from 23.58 million in the year-ago [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air passenger traffic plunged 68 percent last year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the transport ministry said Sunday. In 2020, the number of passengers on domestic and international routes fell to 39.4 million from 123.3 million a year earlier as countries strengthened entry restrictions to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic reached a new high in 2016 on a sharp increase in international passengers to and from the country amid expanded services of low-cost carriers (LCCs), the transportation ministry said Monday. Air passenger traffic came in at 103.9 million last year, breaching the 100 million mark [...]