Korean Air

Korean Air (Code AITA: KE ; Code ICAO: KAL ) is a Airline company Korea, created in 1962.

It is founding member of SkyTeam.

Korean name in Hangûl : 대한항공; in Hanja : 大韓航空; in revised romanisation: Daehan Hanggong and according to the old McCune-Reischauer system: Taehan Hanggong .

History

Korean Air begins in 1962 like Korean Air Lines (KAL) and is then a state enterprise of the South Korean government. It replaces the preceding conveyer Korean National Airlines . In 1969, KAL is bought by the group of transport Hanjin and is privatisée. It takes its current name in 1984, in preparation of the Olympic Games of Seoul.

In 1973, KAL inaugurates its Boeing 747 on the roads of the Pacific and began a service towards Europe with 707. In 1986, it becomes the first company to bring into service new MD-11.

In April 1978, the flight 902 penetrates in the Airspace Soviet and is cut down. It can be posed on a cold lake and the incident makes only two victims.

In August 1983, in similar circumstances, Soviet fighter plans cut down the flight KAL-007, a Boeing 747 coming from Anchorage and bound for the airport of Gimpo with Seoul. The 269 passengers are killed.

November 29th, 1987, flight KAL-858 explodes in the airs. Even if many mysteries remain around this attack, the most advanced thesis is that of a bomb posed on the aircraft by two agents of North Korea. 115 people are killed.

Float

In March 2003

On the whole, Korean Air ordered 100 planes near Boeing: the hundredth and the last being a Boeing 747-400 ER ( Extended Arranges ) cargo liner, almost 33 years after its first Boeing, one 707.

Korean Air ordered 5 Airbus A380 with Airbus.

Direction

President (chairman) of Korean Air Yang Ho Cho was received in the legion of honor like commander in 2004 (by Jacques Chirac).

The relations between the Hanjin Group and France go back to 1973 when former president Cho was elected to belong to the Committee of economic cooperation free-Korean. In October of the same year, Korean Air began its flights cargo liner between Seoul and Paris and made possible this line for the passengers in March 1975. In 1975 also, Korean Air became the first airline company out of Europe to buy planes with Airbus.

Destinations

It is a list of the destinations to what Korean Air flies. It include not the code-shares or the subsidiary ones.

Africa

Égypt Cairo (International airport of Cairo)

Asia

East Asia

China, Popular republic of

Beijing (International Capital Airport of Beijing)

Changsha (Changsha Huanghua)

Dalian (Dalian Zhoushuizi) Canton (International airport of Baïyun Canton)

Jinan (Jinan Yaoqiang Airport)

Kunming (Kunming Wujiaba International Airport)

Qingdao (Qingdao Liuting International Airport) Sanya (Sanya International Phoenix Airport)

Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport) (Shanghai Hongqiao Airport)

Shenyang (Shenyang Taoxian International Airport)

Shenzhen (Shenzhen Bao' International year Airport) Tianjin (Tianjin Binhai International Airport) Urumqi (Urumqi Diwopu International Airport) seasonal

Weihai (Weihai Airport) Wuhan (Wuhan Tianhe International Airport) Xiamen (Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport) Xi' year (Xi' year International Xianyang Airport)

Yanji (Yanji Airport) Yantai (Yantai Laishan Airport)

Zhengzhou (Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport)

South Korea Busan (Gimhae International Airport) X-ray City Cheongju (Cheongju International Airport) Daegu (Daegu International Airport)

Gwangju (Gwangju International Airport) Gunsan (Gunsan Airport)

Jeju (Jeju International Airport) X-ray City Jinju (Jinju Airport) Pohang (Pohang Airport) Seoul (International Gimpo Airport) domestic Hub (International Incheon Airport) international Hub

Ulsan (Ulsan Airport) Wonju (Wonju Airport)

Yangyang (Yangyang International Airport) Yeosu (Yeosu Airport)

HongKong

HongKong (HongKong International Airport)

Japan

Akita (Akita Airport)

Aomori (Aomori Airport)

Fukuoka (Fukuoka Airport)

Hakodate (Hakodate Airport)

Kagoshima (Kagoshima Airport)

Komatsu (Komatsu Airport)

Nagasaki (Nagasaki Airport)

Nagoya (Chūbu Centrair International Airport)

Niigata (Niigata Airport)

Oïta (Oita Airport)

Okayama (Okayama Airport)

Osaka (Kansai International Airport)

Sapporo (New Chitose Airport)

Tokyo (International Haneda Airport)

(International Narita Airport)

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar (Chinggis Khaan International Airport)

Taiwan, Republic of China

Taipei (Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport)

South Asia

India Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport)

Nepal Kathmandu (Tribhuvan International Airport)

Southeast Asia Kampuchea Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh International Airport) Siem Reap (Angkor International Airport) Indonesia Denpasar (Ngurah Spoke Airport)

Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta International Airport)

Malaysia Kota Kinabalu (Kota Kinabalu International Airport) Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) Penang (Penang International Airport)

Philippines Cebu (Mactan-Cebu International Airport)

Shackled (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)

Singapore

Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport)

Thailand Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport) Chiang May (Chiang International May Airport) Pattaya (U-Tapao International Airport) seasonal Phuket (Phuket International Airport)

Vietnam

Hanoi (Noi Bai International Airport) Town of Ho Chi Minh (Tan Its Nhat International Airport)

Asia of South-west

United Arab Emirates Dubai (Dubai International Airport)

Europe

Germany

Francfort-sur-le-Maïn (Airport of Frankfurt Rhine-Hand)

Austria

Vienna (International airport of Vienna)

Spain

Madrid (International airport of Madrid Barajas)

France Paris (Airport of Charles de Gaulle)

Italy

Rome (Airport of Leonardo da Vinci)

Netherlands

Amsterdam (Airport of Schiphol)

Russia

Moscow (Airport of Chérémétyévo) Saint Péterbourg (Pulkovo Airport) saisonal

Vladivostok (Vladivostok International Airport)

Switzerland

Zurich (Zurich Airport)

Czech Republic

Prague (International airport of Ruzyně)

Turkey

Istanbul (Ataturk International Airport) The United Kingdom London (Airport of London Heathrow)

North America Canada

Toronto (Toronto Pearson International Airport) Vancouver (Vancouver International Airport) The United States of America

Atlanta (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport) Chicago (O' Hare International Airport)

Dallas/Fort Worth (Dallas-Extremely Worth International Airport)

Honolulu (Honolulu International Airport)

Las Vegas (McCarran International Airport)

Los Angeles (Los Angeles International Airport)

Town of New York (John F. Kennedy International Airport)

San Francisco (San Francisco International Airport)

Seattle (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport)

Washington, D.C. (Washington Dulles International Airport)

Oceania Australia

Brisbane (Brisbane Airport) Melbourne (Melbourne Airport)

Sydney (Kingsford Smith International Airport)

Fiji

Nadi (Nadi International Airport)

Guam Hagåtña (Antonio B. Won International Stalemate Airport)

Zealand news

Auckland (Auckland International Airport) Christchurch (Christchurch International Airport) saisonal

Commercial characteristics

World leader for the quality of sound Service in flight, Korean Air is also appreciated for the user-friendliness and the professionalism of his personnel.

Korean Air offers a service towards 33 countries, in Asia, America, Europe and in the Pacifique. Its hub (platform of correspondence) principal, located at Seoul with the International Incheon Airport , makes it possible to carry out fast and easy correspondences towards 88 destinations.

Korean Air is equipped with the most modern Aéronef S most recent and. Thus its fleet becomes it younger each year and appears among most recent of the world. Currently the Middle Age of its apparatuses is of less than 7 years. This recent fleet allows its customers to profit from last technological advances.

Founding member of alliance SkyTeam since June 22nd 2000.

Official Internet site (for Europe):

Recent economic outlooks

a dynamic air traffic in 2000 which slowed down in 2001.

The increase in the traffic as well momentary as freight was confirmed in 2000 but the increase in the price of the Kérosène and lowers it tariffs had deteriorated the financial results of Korean Air and Asiana. After a good start of year, the traffic slowed down with the second half-year 2001, thus weakening the airline companies Korea, in already difficult financial position.

Korean Air, the 1st Airline company of the country in front of Asiana.

Disturbed by the American events of the September 11th, the air traffic in South Korea (closely dependant on the market evolutions American but also of the market Japan board), knew a rise of the passenger traffic, but a reduction in the traffic freight. Korean Air, second airline company in the world for freight, was particularly touched by the generalized fall of the air traffic (amplified since the American events of the September 11th), but table on better prospects in 2002.

Korean Air, company of the group Hanjin of 16.850 paid, had in January 2002, a fleet of 120 apparatuses, including 20 reserved for freight. The fleet is mainly made up of 70 Boeing and 32 Airbus (Korean Air was in 1975 the first customer of Airbus except Europe). With the 2nd fleet of Asia, the company is placed in the 14th place in the world for the passenger transport and at the second (since 1996) for that of the goods.

After one year 2001 difficult, the company counts on better figures in 2002. It initially hopes to benefit from the resumption of the activities to the the United States and consequently of the stronger growth expected for 2002 of the South Korean GDP (+ 5% according to the first estimates). The company should also benefit from the lifting, since May 2001, of the prohibition of opening of new lines which weighed on it since the end of 1999, following the accidents of Shanghai and of Stansted.

The company should also benefit from its reclassification of category I by the FAA and from the recovery as from April 2002 of the agreements of Partage of code code sharing with Air France and Delta Air Lines, partners within the framework of the alliance SkyTeam of which it is a founding member.

- the passenger traffic

In 2001, the 16 principal Korean airports domestic airports received 44,3 million passengers in interior flights, that is to say a fall of 3,3% compared to 2000. The share of Korean Air in this traffic amounted to 64%.

After an increase of 19% in 1999, the passenger traffic on international lines increased by 16,1% in 2000 (19,6 million people). It again progressed in 2001 (+ 4,8%) to reach 20,5 million passengers. Nevertheless, direct consequence of the American attacks, the month of September 2001 came to stop 8 months of continuous growth of the traffic, with a light fall of 1,3% (on Incheon International Airport) compared to September 2000. In 2001, the principal destinations of the passengers were by order of importance decreasing the Japan (33%), the Southeast Asia (27%), the America S (14%), the China (14%) and the Europe (7%). The reduction in the passengers in source or bound for the the United States (- 7%) and of Japan (- 1%) was compensated by the increase in the traffic towards China (+ 22%) and Europe (+ 7%).

Korean Air has a market share from approximately 41%, followed by Asiana (21%), Japan Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Thai Airways. Principal European companies in Korea being by order of importance Lufthansa, KLM and Air France.

- the traffic freight

After a growth of more than 10% in 2000, the traffic interior freight knew a fall from approximately 1% in 2001. Korean Air occupies more than 77% of market share. To note a first noticeable decrease by 4% of freight in September 2001 compared to the month of the last year domesticates.

International freight as for him increased by 13,4% in 2000 (1,95 million tons), and reached 1,87 million tons in 2001, that is to say a reduction of 4% compared to the last year. The principal destinations are Americas (29% in 2001), the Southeast Asia (27,5%), Japan (20%), Europe (14%) and China (7%). An important contraction is to note on the markets American (- 11% in volume) and Japanese (- 5%). Contrary, the cargo liner towards China is in increase of more than 10% in volume over the year, that is to say more the strong progression. Korean Air occupies 46% of the market, follow-up of Asiana (20%).

External bond

Official site Korean Air

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