Korean Air to Resume Passenger Flights to Alaska

Korean Air is reportedly to offer a series of seven flights from its Incheon base to Anchorage this summer, the first time it has served the Alaskan market since 2005. According to the Alaska Travel Industry Association, the South Korean carrier’s flights will enable a range of four night travel packages to be sold by travel agents and tour specialists and could being up to 1,500 passengers into the state. After reaching a peak of 1.7 million visitors in 2008, numbers slipped to 1.5 million last year, but forecasts for the year ahead are positive with between five and six percent predicted for 2011. An estimated 4,000 O&D passengers travelled between Incheon and Anchorage in the past year.

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.