Korean Air will resume operations on some routes to the Americas, Europe, and Southeast Asia that have been suspended in the wake of the new coronavirus in June.
Korean Air announced on its website that it will operate 32 routes (146 times a week) of a total of 110 international routes starting on June 1, said sources in the airline industry on May 7. For the Americas, it will resume flights to Washington, Seattle, Vancouver, Canada and Toronto in 50 days. The number of flights to San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago will increase to five times a week.
For Europe, it will ramp up the number of flights to Paris and London more than May, and its services to Amsterdam and Frankfurt will be provided again.
It will also resume services to Southeast Asia such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam, Yangon of Myanmar, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia will be also resumed.
Airline industry watchers say that the actions will be taken to increase the supply of cargo services rather than recovering passenger demand. In fact, it is difficult to expect a rapid recovery in passenger demand in the near future due to the relentless spread of the novel coronavirus in the world.