SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s top flag carrier, said Sunday that its new Boeing 787-9 passenger jet has started service on a domestic route. Late last month, the airline introduced the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, the latest of its series, with 50 percent of its body made of reinforced [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest business focus of two major South Korean airlines – Korean Air Lines and Asiana Airlines - has been on acquiring new aircraft models with better fuel efficiency and lower carbon emissions, a measure seen as crucial to their bottom line and ability to sustain growth in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air and Boeing have teamed up to develop the MD500 helicopter into an unmanned military chopper. According to the airline on Thursday, the two parties signed a memorandum of agreement for the enterprise which will run until 2017. Korean Air has successfully remodeled the local military’s MD500 choppers into [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. aerospace behemoth Boeing said Thursday it will open Asia’s largest aviation training center near Incheon International Airport to train the pilots of Korean Air Co., South Korea’s largest airline. Boeing and Korean Air have worked together to build the aviation campus on Yeongjong Island since November 2013, and it is set [...]