SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of flights on South Korea’s international routes are likely to nearly reach pre-COVID 19 pandemic levels during this peak summer season, the transport ministry said Thursday. The number of flights on 231 routes between domestic airports and overseas ones is expected to recover to 98 percent, or [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Poland will expand the number of weekly flights between the countries to support their strengthening ties in the defense industry and plant construction, the transport ministry said Monday. Seoul and Warsaw have agreed to increase the number of weekly flights to seven from five on routes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of air passengers recovered to nearly 84 percent of the pre-pandemic level in July, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 8.98 million people boarded international and domestic flights last month, up 79 percent from a year earlier, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Land, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Preferences for international travel have evolved since 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first half of the current year. According to data by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, some 1.71 million individuals embarked on the Incheon-Osaka (Kansai) route between January and June, establishing it [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international flight passengers recovered to nearly 65 percent of the pre-pandemic level in the first half of the year, government data showed Monday. A total of 29.5 million people boarded international flights between January and June, accounting for 64.8 percent of the 45.6 million tallied over [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Ethiopia have agreed to increase flights between the two countries from the current seven to nine a week, a move that will help further promote people-to-people exchanges, Seoul said Sunday. Under the agreement reached with the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, there will be two more passenger [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines said Monday they will expand flights to China from later this month, as the two countries recently agreed to increase flights on their routes to pre-pandemic levels. Seoul and Beijing have the right to provide 608 flights a week on routes to each other’s country, and [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean and Chinese aviation authorities have agreed to gradually increase the number of flights on their bilateral routes to pre-pandemic levels, the South Korean transport ministry said Friday. Seoul and Beijing have the rights to provide 608 flights a week on routes to each other’s country, and they [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air traffic rose 16 percent in 2022 from a year earlier on unleashed pent-up demand for travel amid eased COVID-19 virus curbs, the transport ministry said Wednesday. Airlines, domestic and foreign, made a total of 539,788 flights over South Korea last year, up from 465,469 flights a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan have agreed to expand the number of flights on the Gimpo-Haneda route to the pre-pandemic level to meet recovering travel demand amid eased virus curbs, the transport ministry said Wednesday. Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s two biggest carriers, will gradually [...]