SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air traffic rose 16 percent in 2022 from a year earlier on unleashed pent-up demand for travel amid eased COVID-19 virus curbs, the transport ministry said Wednesday. Airlines, domestic and foreign, made a total of 539,788 flights over South Korea last year, up from 465,469 flights a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air traffic rose nearly 11 percent last year on increased domestic flights but international travel continued to falter amid the pandemic, data showed Sunday. Over 465,000 domestic and international flights flew over South Korea last year, up 10.8 percent from a year earlier, according to data from [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s domestic air traffic surpassed the pre-pandemic level last month as more people traveled within the country with persistent restrictions on cross-border trips, data showed Tuesday. Local airlines operated 17,166 domestic flights in March, carrying 2.6 million passengers, according to the data by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Air traffic volume in South Korea halved year-on-year in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Sunday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the number of flight operations last year totaled 421,000, down 50 percent from 2019. The volume on domestic routes fell 10.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air passenger traffic reached a new record high last year on growing travel demand, while flight delays declined due to improved schedule management, the transport ministry said Sunday. In 2017, the country’s passenger traffic on domestic and international routes stood at 109.36 million, up 5.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Air traffic in South Korea rose slightly in the third quarter on strong demand for outbound travel and increased routes to Southeast Asia, government data showed Friday. A total of 195,355 planes flew into and out of South Korea in the July-September period, up 1.2 percent from a year [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu metropolitan government announced Monday that its second air traffic control (ATC) and new air traffic control center (ATCC) are expected to be completed by July of this year, making South Korea’s fourth largest city by population a central hub for air traffic control. The first ATC in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will set up a new air traffic flow management system before the end of next year to enhance airport safety while also improving airline services by greatly reducing flight delays, the government said Monday. Such a system will be up and running before the end of July [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic surged from a year earlier in September with both international and domestic passengers continuing to increase, the government said Thursday. The number of international air passengers to and from the country spiked 21.7 percent on-year to over 5.99 million last month, with the number [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will build a second airport on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju to better handle a spike in passenger traffic, the government said Tuesday. The growing popularity of Jeju Island off South Korea’s southern coast and a sharp surge in demand for low cost carrier flights [...]