SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday all aircraft takeoffs and landings across South Korea will be temporarily prohibited to keep noise down during this year’s annual College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) later this week. According to the transportation ministry, aircraft takeoffs and landings will be restricted for 35 minutes between 1:05 [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Once firmly on the path to recovery from the disruption brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the South Korean airline industry is now facing a crisis of being trapped in ‘three highs,’ a term describing high inflation, high exchange rates and high interest rates. The price of aircraft fuel [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — T’way Air, a South Korean low-cost carrier, said Tuesday it will deploy two passenger jets as cargo planes as it strives to survive the coronavirus crisis. T’way Air will begin using two of its 27 B737-800 passenger jets to carry cargo on the Incheon-Ho Chi Minh City route in [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Lufthansa Group Airlines, Europe’s biggest airline group, will increase the number of flights between Incheon and German cities, as the new coronavirus outbreak in Europe appears to have passed its peak, a Lufthansa executive said. Lufthansa resumed three flights a week from Incheon to Munich on June 24, as [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A major Chinese airline caused a stir recently when it unilaterally notified Korean flight attendants that they were being laid off. The dismissed crew members are now preparing for legal action. China Eastern Airlines Corp. (CEA) notified Korean flight attendants who were on two-year temporary contracts that they were [...]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that low-cost airline Norwegian is using Descartes’ cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway solution to help standardize and automate electronic air cargo communication with its customer base of freight forwarders and other trading partners. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Local hotels are looking for tie-ups with airline companies to bring cabin crews to their facilities as they search for hidden markets to survive stiff competition, industry officials said Sunday. Flight attendants and cockpit crews spend nearly half a year overseas and stay up to four days at a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The countries to which North Korea’s national carrier, Air Koryo, is now able to operate flights has been limited to only China and Russia at a time many countries have endorsed the U.N. sanctions on the North, a U.S. broadcaster reported Tuesday. According to the Voice of America (VOA), [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic surged to a record monthly high in August with international passengers to and from the country also reaching a new all-time high, the government said Tuesday. Overall air passenger traffic came to 9.86 million in August, up 20.1 percent from the same month last [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A Jin Air flight made an emergency landing in Japan with no injuries, said Jin Air Co., the budget unit of Korean Air Lines Co., on Monday. The pilot of the Boeing 737-800 realized there was a hydraulic system malfunction about 9:30 a.m., a failure that kept its landing gear [...]