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Incheon


Incheon is now a SkyTeam hub due to its strategic partnership with Korean Air.


in 2013, it will offer more opportunities for airlines to operate more passenger and cargo routes, as well as opening up more access to Tokyo’s Narita and Haneda airports. However, bilateral negotiations are always tricky things and last year talks to extend an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on routes between South Korea and China’s Shandong and Hainan provinces into a wider Open Skies agreement stalled. However, there are hopes they will soon be renewed.


Korean Air


Of course, Incheon could not have achieved this without the support of its resident airlines, not least of all its hub carriers Korean Air and Asiana Airlines. Korean Air says it sees Incheon as a ‘strategic partner’ and since 2009 has provided a number of incentive schemes for transit passengers, cooperated with the airport on shared global advertising initiatives and regularly attends management level meetings. Korean Air operates fl ights to 89 cities in 34 countries, with its most popular destinations including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York. This year the carrier is looking to open up new routes to Huangshan in China, Irkutsk in Russia and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, although these have not been offi cially confi rmed.


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Korean Air is currently


experiencing growing demand on China–US and East Asia–US routes, with the carrier planning to increase frequencies to Los Angeles and Chicago as well as introducing the A380 on key US routes later this year


Korean Air is currently experiencing growing demand on China–US and East Asia–US routes, with the carrier planning to increase frequencies to Los Angeles and Chicago as well as introducing the A380 on key US routes later this year. Closer to home, capacity will also be increased to major cities in China and Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City. Korean Air and Incheon also regularly cooperate on major projects. In 2001, Incheon became a SkyTeam hub thanks to its relationship with Korean Air, a founding alliance member.


By the end of 2011 Korean Air would have taken delivery of 10 A380s, and will


receive a further fi ve in 2014. As part of preparations to operate these aircraft from the hub, Incheon has built fi ve widebody gates to handle them from Concourse A and the third runway is capable of handling large aircraft, such as the A380 and B787. Incheon is also an important part of


Korean Air’s impressive global cargo network, with the carrier processing some 304,437 tonnes of cargo through the airport in 2010. Volumes have steadily increased from 2001 and today key markets include Vienna, London and Frankfurt in Europe; Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tianjin in China; and smaller operations in Japan, Oceania and other South East Asia destinations.


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