SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of consumer complaints lodged against South Korea’s budget carriers was nearly twice as high as complaints leveled on full-service airlines last year, a consumer rights agency said Monday. In 2016, low-cost carriers (LCC) received a total of 417 consumer complaints, while Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, June 22 (Yonhap) – Air Seoul Inc., a South Korean budget carrier, said Thursday it will focus its business on foreign destinations and has no plan to fly on domestic routes. In October last year, Air Seoul joined the country’s five low-cost carriers — Jin Air Co., Jeju Air Co., Air Busan [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the budget carrier unit of Korean Air Lines Co., said Monday the number of passengers it served has exceeded 30 million nearly nine years after it started operating. Jin Air, launched in July 2008, became the second low-cost carrier (LCC) to reach the milestone after Jeju [...]
SEJONG, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two budget carriers have been slapped with 600 million won (US$524,000) in fines each for breaching flight safety regulations, the transportation ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport imposed the highest financial penalty on Jeju Air Co., owned by the mid-sized retailer Aekyung Group, [...]