SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc. and Hong Kong Airlines have begun codeshare flights that offer more options for passengers flying to and from Hong Kong, the company said Thursday. Asiana currently offers three to four daily flights on the Incheon-Hong Kong route. Hong Kong Airlines operates one daily flight on the [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) – Asiana Airlines Inc. said Tuesday it will increase flights on routes to Japan and Southeast Asia in the second quarter to offset lower demand from China. Asiana, the country’s second-biggest passenger carrier by sales, will flexibly respond to sharp declines in inbound Chinese travelers by reducing flights on routes to and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 full-service carrier, said Friday that it will temporarily suspend flight services to Vladivostok, Bali and Yangon due to weak demand. The company said it will halt flights to Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East starting Feb. 1, while services to Indonesia’s resort of Bali [...]
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, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 air carrier, has filed a lawsuit to reverse an administrative decision ordering it to compensate a pilot who was grounded after refusing to shave his beard, industry sources said Wednesday. The lawsuit lodged with the Seoul Administrative Court calls for the National [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s budget carriers are taking joint actions against the country’s No. 2 flag carrier Asiana Airlines Inc.’s move to start another low-cost airline this year, citing negative effects on the industry they say is near saturation. Jeju Air Co., the country’s top budget carrier, as well as Eastar [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier, ranked first in passenger transportation for the Gimpo-Jeju Island route for the first time last year thanks to its efforts to expand the number of flights for customers using the most popular air travel itinerary here, industry data showed Tuesday. According [...]