Airport 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

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Jeju (CJU)

980

186,279

36.3 %

0.9 %

2

Seoul Gimpo (GMP)

1,011

179,428

34.9 %

(-0.5) %

3

Busan Gimhae (PUS)

376

646,73

12.6 %

1.3 %

4

Gwangju (KWJ)

109

196,98

3.8 %

5.7 %

5

Daegu (TAE)

72

126,12

2.5 %

(-1.6) %

6

Cheongju (CJJ)

63

115,64

2.3 %

(-5.3) %

7

Yeosu (RSU)

64

100,29

2.0 %

5.2 %

8

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

58

9,650

1.9 %

7.1 %

9

Ulsan (USN)

56

8,341

1.6 %

(-3.3) %

10

Pohang (KPO)

31

4,784

0.9 %

(-18.4) %

(Others)

40

6,610

1.3 %

1.9 $

TOTAL

2,860

513,668

-

0.3 %

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

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

1,964

465,603

79.1 %

11.5 %

2

Busan Gimhae (PUS)

307

53,548

9.1 %

26.4 %

3

Seoul Gimpo (GMP)

206

53,028

9.0 %

38.8 %

4

Jeju (CJU)

70

13,013

2.2 %

42.5 %

5

Daegu (TAE)

9

1,424

0.2 %

(-31.7) %

6

Muan International (MWX)

8

1,276

0.2 %

29.4 %

7

Cheongju (CJJ)

5

918

-

New Entrant

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

2,569

588,810

-

15.2 %

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

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Tokyo Narita (NRT)

140

34,835

5.9 %

29.7 %

2

Osaka Kansai International (KIX)

159

33,340

5.7 %

24.0 %

3

Hong Kong International (HKG)

121

31,727

5.4 %

7.6 %

4

Shanghai Pu Dong (PVG)

143

28,932

4.9 %

2.5 %

5

Tokyo Haneda (HND)

95

28,451

4.8 %

20.9 %

6

Beijing Capital International (PEK)

128

26,224

4.5 %

6.1 %

7

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK)

88

24,336

4.1 %

18.3 %

8

Fukuoka (FUK)

94

20,441

3.5 %

9.6 %

9

Manila Ninoy Aquino International (MNL)

85

19,195

3.3 %

2.9 %

10

Taipei Taoyuan (TPE)

70

17,978

3.1 %

11.1 %

(Others)

1,446

323,351

54.9 %

14.5 %

TOTAL

2,569

588,810

-

15.2 % %

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