SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s airlines will hire more than 3,500 workers this year as they move to serve ever rising numbers of air passengers, industry sources said Wednesday. Korean Air Lines Co. said it will recruit more than 1,000 new workers, noting that it will fly 17 new flights this year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the budget unit of Korean Air Lines Co., has launched a new route to Johor Bahru in Malaysia, company officials said Wednesday, in the latest move to expand its services in the region. The debut service began on Tuesday when a B777-200ER aircraft with 393 seats left for Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia from Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway. Jin Air said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., a major South Korean budget carrier, will seek to become a global industry leader after its listing on the country’s main stock market, the company head said Friday. Jin Air Co., the low-cost carrier unit of Hanjin KAL Corp., is slated to debut on the main [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the low-cost carrier unit of Hanjin KAL Corp., launched a chatbot service on Tuesday, giving automatic answers to customers through an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, the company said. “Jaid” is an online messaging tool that uses deep-learning technology to answer questions from customers about various information [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A portmanteau of “chat” and “robot”, chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate human conversation in both spoken speech and text format. With the seemingly inevitable advent of artificial intelligence approaching nearer by the day, South Korean airlines, entertainment and banking industry players are taking measures to get ahead [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the low-cost carrier unit of Hanjin KAL Corp., said Tuesday it will raise over 300 billion won (US$268 million) through its planned initial public offering in December for the expansion of its fleet and routes. The nine-year-old budget carrier plans to place 9 million existing stocks [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the budget carrier unit of Korean Air Lines Co., said Friday it will temporarily offer flights to Johor Baharu in Malaysia early next year to meet travel demand during the winter holiday season. Jin Air plans to deploy its B777-200ER jet configured to take 393-seats on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Local South Korean airline carriers plan to train and hire 3,000 pilots by 2022 to meet growing demand, the transport ministry said Monday. The move is designed to help meet rising demand for airline service as an increasing number of Koreans opt to travel abroad. Currently, low-cost carriers offer [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., the budget carrier unit of Korean Air Lines Co., said on Monday it added a B737-800 jet to its growing fleet to meet demand during the summer peak season. With the addition of the B737-800, Jin Air’s fleet is now composed of 20 B737-800s and four long-range B777-200ERs, all leased from U.S. aircraft manufacturer [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., one of South Korea’s biggest budget carriers, on Friday opened a new route to Jeju Island to capitalize on growing low-cost travel demand during the peak summer season. The low-cost carrier has allocated a 189-seat B737-800 jet to serve the Gwangju-Jeju route two times a day, [...]