Korean Air adds further capacity to China and Japan

Korean Air’s network is rebounding, with the airline planning to resume and add capacity to China and Japan.

China and Northeast Asia

Korean Air will resume its Busan-Shanghai Pudong and Jeju-Beijing routes with daily flights starting 1st of July.

Additionally, the Seoul Incheon-Hefei service will resume with five weekly flights from the 19th of August, whilst the Seoul Incheon-Kunming service will be restored, with four weekly flights from the 14th of October.

Finally, in terms of additions, the Busan-Beijing route will be reinstated on the 16th of September, with six weekly flights

The airline will also boost frequencies on the following route

• Seoul Incheon-Yanji will increase to daily flights from four weekly flights starting June 1.
• Seoul Incheon-Dalian will temporarily see an increase by four flights to 11 weekly flights from July 1 to September 15.
• The daily Seoul Incheon-Tianjin operation will increase to two daily flights from August 5 to October 20.
• Seoul Incheon-Ulaanbaatar will be increased by two flights, to operate eight weekly flights from June 1 to September 30.

Japan

Korean Air is also expanding its operations to Japan as demand increases, with three routes gaining :

• Jeju-Tokyo Narita will resume to operate three times a week from July 19 to October 25.
• Seoul Incheon-Okayama will increase from three to five weekly flights starting August 3,
• Seoul Incheon-Kagoshima will also increase from three to five weekly flights starting September 2.

Restoring capacity when it is needed

With the Asian market still soft, airlines have to be careful how they deploy their capacity – ensuring the appropriate demand is met, whilst not over-committing (and thus having empty seats and empty aircraft flying between destinations).

Some of the routes are seeing permanent bumps, whilst others are getting summer traffic capacity to suit the needs of customers.

Network management is a fine skill – it’s an even finer skill to grow a network further.