Korean Air will expand its operations for the winter season to meet resurgent travel demand by resuming services and increasing operations to China, Japan, Southeast Asia, North America and Oceania. The airline will also be launching a new scheduled service to Phu Quoc, Vietnam on November 26.
Korean Air’s seat capacity (measured by Available Seat Kilometers or ASK) reached approximately 85 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September, and is expected to recover to over 90 percent with the launch of the winter schedule.
Korean Air will launch a new daily service to Phu Quoc, Vietnam on November 26. Vietnam’s largest island, Phu Quoc is also known as “Pearl Island.”
After three years and seven months of hiatus, Korean Air will resume services to three cities in China and Japan, respectively.
For the China routes, Busan-Shanghai and Seoul Incheon-Xiamen will operate daily, and Seoul Incheon-Kunming four times a week. Korean Air will proactively increase its capacity to China to meet the growing number of Chinese visitors, especially following China’s resumption of group tours from August to 78 countries including Korea, Japan and the US.
From late October, the airline will resume routes from Seoul Incheon to Kagoshima, Niigata and Okayama with three flights a week.
Korean Air will expand its China network capacity by increasing the Seoul Incheon-Beijing frequency to 18 times a week from daily; Jeju-Beijing to four times a week from three; Seoul Incheon-Shenzhen and Seoul Incheon-Xian to daily from four times a week; Seoul Incheon-Wuhan to four times a week from three; and Seoul Incheon-Hong Kong to four daily flights from two daily.
Korean Air will increase frequencies on the Seoul Incheon-Osaka and Seoul Incheon-Fukuoka routes to four daily from three; and on the Seoul Incheon-Tokyo Narita route to four daily from two. The airline will also expand services on the Seoul Incheon-Nagoya route to operate 17 times a week from two daily until December 27.
In the Southeast Asian region, the airline will increase flight frequencies on the Incheon-Bangkok route to five times daily from three; the Incheon-Manila route to three times daily from two; and the Seoul Incheon-Delhi and Seoul Incheon-Kathmandu routes to four times a week from three.
The Incheon-Chiang Mai route frequency will increase twice daily from daily until March 2 next year.
Frequencies on the Seoul Incheon-Auckland and Seoul Incheon-Brisbane routes will increase to daily from five times a week from November 10 to March 18 next year. The Seoul Incheon-Las Vegas route frequency will also increase to five times a week from four.