SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC) Eastar Jet Co. said Tuesday it will add a physical fitness test category in its cabin crew hiring process starting this year. The addition aims to assess the essential physical strength of cabin crew members, as they are responsible for handling emergency situations during [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC) Eastar Jet Co. said Friday it was investigating a misconduct case involving a cabin crew’s taking of personal photos on the wing of a company aircraft at a domestic airport this week. Several flight attendants of the airline were found to have taken personal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier, said Sunday it has resumed services on international routes after a 3 1/2-year hiatus induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Eastar Jet began providing three flights a week on the route from Gimpo to Songsan in Taiwan starting Saturday, the company said [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier, said Tuesday it will resume services on the routes to Tokyo and Osaka in September after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eastar Jet will provide one flight a day on the Incheon-Tokyo route and two flights a day [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean budget carrier, said Sunday it resumed flights starting with a domestic route, three years after it suspended operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and a court-led restructuring. It resumed 20 flights between Gimpo, west of Seoul, and the southernmost island of Jeju, including [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier (LLC), said Tuesday it will resume flights later this month after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on putting its business back on track. Eastar Jet, a China-focused carrier, received an air operator certificate (AOC) from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier (LLC), said Tuesday it will resume flights later this month as it has received an air operator certificate (AOC) from the transport ministry. Eastar, a China-focused carrier, has suspended most of its flights on domestic and international routes since March 2020 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday approved the restructuring plans submitted by Eastar Jet Co. paving the way for the budget carrier to resume flights amid an accelerating vaccination campaign. The Seoul Bankruptcy Court’s approval has cleared the way for local property developer Sung Jung Co. to finalize the deal [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean property developer Sung Jung, the preliminary preferred bidder for Eastar Jet Co., is set to acquire the financially troubled budget carrier, beating a sole bidder in the latest auction, industry sources said Thursday. On Monday, a consortium led by local underwear company Ssangbangwool, Inc. attended the auction [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A consortium led by underwear maker Ssang Bang Wool has submitted a bid to acquire financially troubled budget carrier Eastar Jet Co. to compete with a local construction company that was previously selected as a preferred bidder, industry sources said Monday. Kanglim, a local equipment maker under Ssang Bang [...]