SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Under circumstances in which international trips remain halted due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary flight event was held for a group of Taiwanese tourists. The Taipei Office of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), together with Taiwanese travel agency Ezfly International Travel Agent Co. and low-cost [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s national flag carrier, said Wednesday it will suspend flights on the Incheon-Washington route from mid-April due to the impact of the coronavirus. Korean Air plans to stop serving flights from Incheon to Washington, D.C., starting April 13, with the suspension scheduled to last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A deadly new coronavirus has prompted South Korean airlines to suspend more than half of their flight services to China, industry sources said Tuesday. As of Tuesday, industry leader Korean Air Lines Co. and seven other carriers have temporarily suspended 57 out of their 100 routes to the neighboring [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The senseless behavior of a few K-pop fans in Hong Kong resulted in a significant flight delay as all passengers were forced to deplane and go through security again. A total of 360 passengers on a Korean Air flight bound for Seoul were waiting for a 3:25 p.m. departure [...]
SEJONG, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A revised bill to Korea’s aviation security law was passed on Thursday, after rising concerns over an increasing number of air rage incidents on flights to and from Korea, an initiative that specifies legal punishment for those violating the law. Punishment for air rage assaults that threaten the safety [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday that it has instructed its flight attendants to more actively consider the use of force, including tasers, during cases of in-flight violence. The move follows a widely publicized incident where a 35-year-old South Korean man went on a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic has reached a new high on a sharp increase in international passengers to and from the country, the transportation ministry said Monday. Air passenger traffic has already reached over 100 million as of Monday, breaching the 100 million mark for the first time in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will set up a new air traffic flow management system before the end of next year to enhance airport safety while also improving airline services by greatly reducing flight delays, the government said Monday. Such a system will be up and running before the end of July [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Aerospace University scientists have discovered the fundamentals of insect flight, using a newly developed “insect robot”. According to the team, most insects use a flying method that creates spiraling vortices around the wings, which allows for stable flight even in sudden gusts. Although there have been scientific studies [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it has no plan to ban the use of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 on planes following the company’s global recall of the smartphones for battery problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that it has been reviewing whether to prevent people [...]