SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean pilots are leaving local airlines, data showed Friday, apparently for better salaries and working conditions abroad. According to the data by the transportation ministry, the number of pilots who left top flag carrier Korean Air Lines during the January-July period stood at 42. This is compared with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines barely reversed the verdict on an ordinary wage lawsuit filed by its laborers, but it cannot smile as the court revealed its poor financial status. According to airline industry watchers on September 3, the Seoul High Court sided with Asiana Airlines, reversing a lower court’s ruling that regular [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines, South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, said Wednesday it plans to eliminate almost all its first-class seats from its international flights as part of an effort to cut losses. The first-class seat system usually leads to high costs, but most airlines have been holding on to the operations [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – To revitalize Korea’s tourism industry and domestic demand dented by the recent outbreak of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, the “Korea Grand Sale” will run for 79 days from August 14 to October 31. The Visit Korea Committee announced on August 11 that this year’s Korea Grand Sale would [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines, South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier, has been sued for allegedly causing serious burns to a female passenger on board one of its planes last year. The passenger in her mid-30s, identified only by her last name Jang, has filed a lawsuit seeking 200 million won (US$171,000) in [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean companies are rushing to step up their emergency response efforts to better protect their employees from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which is showing signs of a wide spread in South Korea. South Korea remains gripped by the potentially deadly disease that has claimed six lives so far [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of sick leaves among flight attendants at two Korean national airlines is 10 times higher than the number among airline workers on the ground. Jet lag, night shifts, exposure to cosmic radiation and emotional burdens are estimated to contribute to the high number. According to a paper [...]
TOKYO, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines has said it will compensate all passengers aboard its flight that skidded off the runway at a Japanese airport last week. South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier said on its Japanese website in a Saturday post that passengers who were on board Asiana flight OZ162 from Seoul to Hiroshima in [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean jetliner ran off the runway as it landed at Japan’s Hiroshima Airport on Tuesday, leaving almost 20 people slightly injured, according to officials and news reports. Asiana Airlines Flight 162, carrying 73 passengers and seven crew members, came to a stop after veering off the runway at [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 air carrier Korean Air saw its local brand value nosedive this year following last year’s “nut rage” case that outraged the nation’s public, a survey showed Tuesday. Brandstock, a South Korean market researcher that determines rankings of the top 100 local brands, said in its latest [...]