SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Local South Korean airline carriers plan to train and hire 3,000 pilots by 2022 to meet growing demand, the transport ministry said Monday. The move is designed to help meet rising demand for airline service as an increasing number of Koreans opt to travel abroad. Currently, low-cost carriers offer [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines held a special science and engineering class for female students at its second aircraft hangar at Incheon Airport on Thursday as part of K-girls Day, an event devised to raise awareness and interest in engineering among women. According to the airline on Friday, the education program was held [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The chairman of Kumho Asiana Group, parent of Kumho Tire Co., on Wednesday submitted a revised proposal to creditors over the use of the tiremaker’s brand, an industry source said Wednesday. The revised proposal by Kumho Asiana Chairman Park Sam-koo came as the creditors, led by state-run Korea Development [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc. said Wednesday it will concentrate on the special cargo business that has been bringing in high profits on increasing demand. The air carrier transported 12 percent more premium freight in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, according to company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc. said Thursday its losses widened in the second quarter from a year earlier due to foreign currency-related losses. Net loss reached 74.7 billion won (US$65.3 million) in the April-June period, compared to a loss of 26.7 billion won a year earlier, the company said in a [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines was fined 900 million won (US$802,282) for a runway accident two years ago and the pilot responsible stripped of his license, the transport ministry said Thursday while announcing a series of punitive actions against carriers. Korean Air Lines Co. was ordered to pay 600 million won in [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Air Busan, a South Korea budget carrier, has added one A321-200 aircraft to its fleet that will allow it to strengthen its customer service, the company said Thursday. The low-cost carrier has leased a total of 20 passenger jets, including the latest 195-seat airplane, and plans to increase the [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by Asiana Airlines Inc. against the government’s temporary suspension order for its San Francisco route. “We found that the pilots of Asiana Flight 214 misjudged the conditions as the plane descended to land (in San Francisco in July 2013) and [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc. said Wednesday its net profit more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier on currency gains. Net profit for the three months ended March 31 jumped to 96 billion won (US$85 million) from 44 billion won a year earlier, the company said in [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc. on Wednesday received its first A350-900 aircraft that will allow it to strengthen its customer service on international routes starting next month. Asiana, South Korea’s second-biggest flag carrier by sales, will put the wide-body jet that can seat 311 people initially on the Incheon-Manila route from [...]