Korean Air Resumes Service to Taiwan

Korean Air today resumed flight services to Taiwan - the first scheduled service in twelve years.

Korean Air will operate a 148 seat B737-800 on this once daily Incheon - Taipei flight. Passenger flights out of Incheon will depart at 09:25 and arrive in Taipei at 11:10. Flights out of Taipei will depart at 12:20 and arrive in Incheon at 15:45.

Regularly scheduled flights between the two countries were discontinued after diplomatic ties were severed between Korea and Taiwan in 1992. During this period, Korean Air operated a series of charter flights to the country beginning in December 2002, including a flight transporting relief goods for the recent earthquake disaster. The Korean Ministry of Construction and Transportation announced its flight frequency allocation to Korean Air and Asiana Airlines last week.

Although the number of passengers traveling between the two countries has decreased with the discontinuation of flights, Korean Air expects that the number of travelers will rapidly increase and surpass pre-1992 levels. The restoration of diplomatic ties between the two countries is expected to increase levels of trade which will increase traffic levels.

Approximately 450,000 passengers traveled by air between these two countries annually prior to 1992. Korean Air operated 14 weekly passenger flights and two cargo flights on this popular route. A total of 18 weekly passenger flights and two cargo flights were operated by Korean carriers (Asiana: four passenger flights). Taiwanese carriers operated a total of 16 weekly flights.

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