JEJU, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) —The investigation into the incident that disrupted flight operations at Jeju International Airport, a critical national facility, will be concluded without a definitive determination of whether it involved a bird or a drone. The Jeju West Police Station announced their decision due to insufficient evidence to ascertain the circumstances surrounding [...]
JEJU, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In a bid to ensure disinfection and social distancing in bustling departure waiting rooms for domestic flights, Jeju International Airport has decided to open international flight waiting rooms to domestic flight passengers. The departure waiting rooms for international flights have remained idle since the visa-free entry system was suspended [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of passengers handled this year by Jeju International Airport, the gateway to Jeju Island, topped 30 million for the first time, data showed Wednesday. A total of 30,057,300 passengers traveled through the airport on the southern resort island until Dec. 16 this year, according to the data [...]
JEJU ISLAND/SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The airport on the country’s resort island of Jeju resumed operations and began transporting over 7,000 passengers who have been stranded after a series of shutdowns caused by heavy snowfall the previous day, the government said. The first flight bound for Gimpo, in western Seoul, took off from [...]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) -- The international airport on the southern resort island of Jeju resumed operation Thursday after a couple of temporary shutdowns caused by heavy snowfall, the authorities said. Jeju International Airport banned the use of its runways at 6:30 p.m. due to high winds and heavy snow but [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Hotel Shilla Co. won the right to operate a duty-free shop at an airport on South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, customs officials said Wednesday, amid growing hopes for the return of Chinese tourists. The operator of Shilla Duty Free was tapped to operate the outlet at Jeju International Airport for five years, beating its domestic rivals Lotte Duty Free and Shinsegae DF, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s three leading retailers have submitted their bids to run a duty-free business at an airport on the country’s resort island of Jeju, its operator said Monday, amid signs that Chinese tourists may return in force. Lotte Duty Free, Shilla Duty Free and Shinsegae DF applied to operate a duty-free store at Jeju International Airport, according to Korea Airports Corp. (KAC). The [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Galleria Timeworld Co., a local duty-free operator, said Monday the company will pull out of a local airport next month amid a sharp drop in the number of Chinese tourists. In a regulatory filing, the duty-free operator said its store at Jeju Airport will shut down Aug. 31, [...]
JEJU, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – Passengers were held ‘hostage’ at the Jeju airport as low-cost airlines were failing in efficiently boarding passengers on their flights. The lines in front of the low-cost airline counters were not getting any shorter. The chaos was created when low-cost airlines gave out waiting number tickets to the passengers randomly [...]
JEJU, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju International Airport on South Korea’s southernmost resort island operated hundreds of flights overnight, carrying some 23,900 people off the island after passengers had been grounded by heavy snowfall for over 40 hours, the government said Tuesday. The Jeju Regional Office of Aviation said a total of 355 flights [...]