YEONGJONG ISLAND, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to South Korea, is likely to see a ninefold increase in air travelers in the upcoming peak summer vacation season, compared with last year, airport officials said Thursday. A total of 1.71 million passengers are expected to travel through the airport during [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s transportation ministry is considering lifting the curfew for arrivals at Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to the country, from July at the earliest, as part of efforts to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, sources said Tuesday. Currently, there are no arrival flights allowed at Incheon Airport from [...]
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to South Korea, became the world’s second-busiest cargo airport in 2021, up one notch from the previous year, a trade body said Monday. Incheon International Airport handled 3.23 million tons of international cargo, up 18.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the Airports [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), South Korea’s main airport operator, said Tuesday it forged a deal worth 600 billion-won (US$530 million) to develop and run an airport in Indonesia. The company said it held a signing ceremony with Batam Indonesia Free Zone Authority in the Southeast Asian country’s Batam [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to South Korea, has seen a sharp recovery in the number of inbound and outbound travelers over the past two months amid the country’s push for a “Living with COVID-19″ plan. According to Incheon International Airport Corp., the state-run operator of the airport, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of daily passengers at Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway, dropped below 10,000 last month, data showed Saturday, apparently due to fewer-than-usual travelers during the Chuseok holiday, the Korean autumn harvest celebration. A daily average of 9,583 passengers used the Incheon airport last month, the airport [...]
YEONGJONG ISLAND, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new smartphone app lets users know how long it will take them to get from home to their boarding gate at Incheon International Airport. The Incheon International Airport Corp. introduced the world’s first ‘Home to Airport’ service provided by an international airport on Wednesday, which calculates the [...]
YEONGJONG ISLAND, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — VIP rooms at Incheon International Airport have all but been abandoned as COVID-19 continues to put severe constraints on overseas travel. The Incheon International Airport Corp. reported that the VIP rooms at the airport were used only 170 times between January and August this year. With a monthly average [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), South Korea’s main airport operator, said Tuesday that it had acquired Airport Health Accreditation from the Airports Council International (ACI) for the second straight year. The ACI Airport Health Accreditation was introduced in July 2020 as a way to systemize global airports’ disinfection [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon international Airport, the country’s main gateway, will start providing an unmanned money exchange service to enable travelers using the airport to exchange money on a non-face-to-face basis without having to visit a bank or currency exchange counters, its operator said Monday. In collaboration with three commercial banks that [...]