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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Flights from Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport to Osaka and Taipei will resume later this week, the state-run airport operator here said Saturday, more than two years after the routes were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. International flight routes between Seoul’s Gimpo and Osaka’s Kansai airports and between Gimpo [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The airline industry’s reopening of international routes has resulted in a shortage of aircraft, resulting in a reduction of flights on certain domestic routes. The weekly frequency of domestic flights linking Muan International Airport with Jeju International Airport and Gimpo International Airport is scheduled to be cut from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of Koreans are bringing their dogs and cats with them when they travel by air. According to Korean Air Lines Co., 6,020 pets flew on its international flights and 12,775 pets travelled on domestic flights in the passenger cabin from January to August. During the same [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s second-biggest carrier, said Monday it will expand flights on its European routes later this month as eased virus restrictions unleash pent-up demand. Asiana Airlines will increase flights on the routes from Incheon to Frankfurt and London beginning May 28 and May 30, respectively, the [...]
NEW YORK, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Yesterday, at the Glasshouse Chelsea in New York, ITA Airways, the new Italian national carrier presented to representatives of the American and International press as well as business partners in the US market the new connections with the American hubs launched with the 2022 summer season. The Company [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As flight travel is making a comeback, more people are choosing to fly longer distances rather than visiting close, neighboring countries for travel. Major online shopping malls Gmarket and Auction studied big data related to overseas travel package sales in the last 30 days (March 11 to April 10), [...]