Korean Air has confirmed plans to resume multiple routes to China and Japan, including Changsha, Wuhan, Weihai, Fukuoka and Nagoya, after a hiatus of three years and six months.
The Seoul Incheon-Changsha route will resume operations with five flights per week from today, 19 July 19, while the Seoul Incheon-Wuhan and Seoul Incheon-Weihai routes will resume operations on September 23 and 24 2023, respectively.
Also starting on September 2023, the airline will resume Busan-Fukuoka and Busan-Nagoya services with flights operating twice daily to Fukuoka, and daily to Nagoya from Busan. Those two routes will be serviced by Boeing 737-900ER, with a capacity of 173 passengers.
As of this month, the airline’s available seat kilometer (ASK) capacity reached approximately 82% of pre-pandemic levels in 2019, indicating a significant recovery in capacity.
The airline has increased frequencies on several routes. In the North American region, the airline expanded the number of flights on the Seoul Incheon-Chicago route from 5 to 7 times per week, on the Seoul Incheon-Dallas route from 4 to 5 times per week, and on the Seoul Incheon-San Francisco route from 7 to 9 times per week.
In Europe, the airline increased flights on the Incheon-Frankfurt service from 5 to 7 times per week, and between Incheon and Milan from 3 to 4 times per week.
The airline is also increasing the number of weekly flights on its routes to Ulaanbaatar, Sapporo and Bali. The Seoul Incheon-Ulaanbaatar route has seen an increase from 7 to 8 times per week this month, and services will expand to 10 weekly flights for the month of August.
Korean has also increased frequencies from 7 to 11 times a week between Seoul Incheon and Sapporo, and will increase flights from 9 to 11 times a week between Seoul Incheon and Bali by the end of August, adding additional flights on Friday and Saturday.