airline perspective: South Korea

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

SOUTH KOREAN DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Korean Air (KE)

1,214

237,046

46.1 %

6.7 %

2

Asiana Airlines (OZ)

664

115,577

22.5 %

(-10.9) %

3

Air Busan (BX)

391

59,386

11.6 %

3.9 %

4

Eastar Jet (ZE)

251

37,399

7.3 %

2.9 %

5=

T’Way Airlines (TW)

170

32,130

6.3 %

(-6.6) %

5=

Jin Air (LJ)

170

32,130

6.3 %

0.0

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

2,860

513,668

-

(0.3) %

SOUTH KOREAN INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Korean Air (KE)

839

211,022

35.8 %

18.1 %

2

Asiana Airlines (OZ)

607

142,114

24.1 %

3.9 %

3

China Eastern Airlines (MU)

113

20,050

3.4 %

3.5 %

4

China Southern Airlines (CZ)

102

16,933

2.9 %

4.0 %

5

Jeju Airlines (7C)

85

16,065

2.7 %

77.1 %

6

Thai Airways International (TG)

42

13,311

2.3 %

37.5 %

7

Japan Airlines (JL)

63

12,327

2.1 %

54.1 %

8

Air China (CA)

75

12,261

2.1 %

4.9 %

9

All Nippon Airways (NH)

42

11,508

2.0 %

42.0 %

10

Cathay Pacific Airways (CX)

35

11,207

1.9 %

(-2.6) %

(Others)

566

122,012

20.7 %

19.6 %

TOTAL

2,569

588,810

-

15.2 %

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