SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s entry restrictions for visitors from South Korea are dealing another blow to airlines and travel agencies already hit by the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, the companies said Friday. Local airlines and travel agencies have been struggling with a sharp decline in air travel demand for more than a month [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two full-service carriers said Wednesday that they will temporarily suspend or reduce most of their flights to the United States and Europe due to declining air travel demand amid the spreading coronavirus outbreak. The move comes as an increasing number of people opt not to travel amid [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s biggest airline by sales, said Friday it will reduce flights on U.S. routes next month and use smaller planes due to declining demand amid the spread of the new coronavirus. Korean Air will temporarily reduce the number of flights on the routes from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines are suspending more flights on international routes as people opt not to travel amid growing fears over the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, industry officials said Wednesday. With no end in sight to the COVID-19 outbreak, local airlines began to reduce the number of flights — or stop [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines said Tuesday they will extend flight suspensions to China and halt more flights on international routes due to the growing impact of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. With no end in sight for the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest airline [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines have suspended or plan to halt flights to the country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of new coronavirus infections have been reported over the weekend. Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s biggest full-service carrier, canceled its flights to Daegu from the southern resort island of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines are on alert as the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow. The Covid-19 outbreak comes with airlines already reeling from cutting flights to Japan as Korea and Japan were locked in diplomatic strife last summer. Now, flights to destinations in China and Southeast Asia are also threatened. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines’ first-quarter earnings may be dismal as they suspended or reduced flights on international routes amid the spreading COVID-19 virus outbreak, analysts said Thursday. In their latest move to respond to the virus, Asiana Airlines Inc., the country’s second-biggest airline after Korean Air Lines Co., said it [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines said Monday they will maintain the suspension of some flights to China until the end of March as people opt not to travel to the neighboring country amid the spreading coronavirus outbreak. The country’s two full-service carriers — Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The spread of the novel coronavirus is likely to take a particularly heavy toll on air carriers among all South Korean industries, analysts said Wednesday, citing the reduction in the number of flights to China. “The new coronavirus will add another blow to the already-downtrodden travel demand,” Eugene Investment [...]