Asiana Airlines

Asiana Airlines 아시아나 항공
IATA code :	OZ
ICAO code :	AAR
Call sign :	ASIANA
Founding:	1988
Seat:	Seoul , South Korea
Turnstile :	Seoul Incheon Seoul Gimpo
Home airport :	Seoul Incheon
IATA prefix code :	988
Management:	Kim Soo Cheon ( CEO )
Number of employees:	10,380
Sales:	₩ 5.552 trillion (2014)
Passenger volume:	37 million (2014)
Alliance :	Star Alliance
Frequent Flyer Program :	Asiana Club
Fleet size:	86 (+ 43 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	flyasiana.com

Asiana Airlines ( Korean 아시아나 항공 ) is a South Korean airline based in Seoul and based at nearby Incheon Airport . It is a member of the Star Alliance aviation alliance .

history

Asiana Boeing 737-400 in 2001

Asiana Airlines was founded in 1988 by the Kumho Asiana Group . Until 1989, overseas flights for Koreans were strictly regulated by the military government and could only be undertaken by the state monopoly Korean Air . The Olympic Games eased it in 1988 . Korean Air was unable to handle the onslaught that followed. The conglomerate Kumho Asiana Group was allowed to set up an airline called Asiana Airlines. Flight operations began on December 23, 1988 with six Boeing 737-400 leased .

The first international flight took place in 1990 from Seoul-Gimpo to Tokyo and also in 1990 Asiana Airlines was able to receive the first Boeing 767 from the manufacturer. Gradually, the fleet and the international route network were expanded. In 1994, the first hit 747 - cargo plane one. In addition to Boeing, Airbus has also been using aircraft for medium and long-haul routes since 1996 .

In March 2003, the country acceded to the airline alliance Star Alliance .

On July 16, 2008 Asiana Airlines ordered a total of 30 copies of the Airbus A350 including ten options. Of these, eight are A350-800, twelve A350-900 and ten A350-1000. Asiana is the only airline that has ordered all three versions of the A350. The first aircraft, an A350-900, was delivered on April 24, 2017.

In 2010, Asiana won Skytrax's Airline of the Year award .

In January 2011 Asiana ordered six A380-800s from Airbus (total list price would be 1.4 billion euros). It is to be used on long-haul routes to North America and Europe . The first machine was delivered in May 2014.

Asiana Airlines operates low-cost airlines with Air Busan and Air Seoul .

According to Skytrax , along with All Nippon Airways , Cathay Pacific , Etihad Airways , Eva Air , Garuda Indonesia , Hainan Airlines , Lufthansa , Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines, it is one of the ten 5-star airlines in the world (as of January 2018).

In April 2019, Kumho Asiana decided to put the Asiana airline up for sale. The plan is for a consortium of Hyundai Development and Mirae Asset Daewoo to take over the 31 percent stake in Kumho Asiana for 2.5 trillion won in December 2019.

Destinations

Asiana Airlines destinations

From its two hubs in the Seoul area , Asiana Airlines flies to cities within South Korea, destinations throughout Asia , North America and Europe . In German-speaking countries is Frankfurt served.

Code sharing

Asiana Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: ( Star Alliance members are marked with * )

Air Astana Air Busan Air Canada * Air China * Air India * Air Macau

Air New Zealand * All Nippon Airways * Austrian Airlines * China Southern Airlines Copa Airlines *

Ethiopian Airlines * Etihad Airways EVA Air * LOT * Myanmar Airways International

Qantas Airways Qatar Airways S7 Airlines Shandong Airlines Shenzhen Airlines *

Singapore Airlines * South African Airways * SriLankan Airlines Thai Airways * Turkish Airlines * United Airlines *

fleet

Asiana Airbus A320-200

Airbus A330-300 of the Asiana

Asiana Boeing 767-300

Asiana Boeing 777-200ER

As of March 2020, the Asiana Airlines fleet consists of 86 aircraft with an average age of 11.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco + / Eco )
Airbus A320-200	7th			159 (- / - / - / 159)
Airbus A321-100	2			200 (- / - / - / 200)
Airbus A321-200	15th		8 equipped with sharklets ; HL8071 in Star Alliance special livery	171 (- / 12 / - / 159)
Airbus A321neo	1	24		188 (- / 8 / - / 180)
Airbus A330-300	15th			275 (- / 30 / - / 245) 290 (- / 30 / - / 260)
Airbus A350-900	11	10		311 (- / 28/36/247)
Airbus A350-1000		9		- open -
Airbus A380-800	6th			495 (12/66 / - / 417)
Boeing 747-400	2			398 (10/24 / - / 364)
Boeing 747-400BDSF	7th		Cargo aircraft of Asiana Cargo	-
Boeing 747-400F	4th		Cargo aircraft of Asiana Cargo	-
Boeing 767-300	6th		HL7516 in Star Alliance special livery	250 (- / 15 / - / 235) 290 (- / - / - / 290)
Boeing 767-300ERF	1		Asiana Cargo cargo plane	-
Boeing 777-200ER	9			300 (- / 22 / - / 278) 302 (- / 24 / - / 278)
total	86	43

Incidents

• On July 26, 1993 a Boeing 737-500 (HL7229) was flown into a mountain on the flight from Seoul-Gimpo in the approach to Mokpo in rain and poor visibility. The pilots mistakenly assumed they had already flown over the mountain. This CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) killed 68 inmates, 66 passengers and two crew members; only 48 of the 116 people on board survived (see also Asiana Airlines flight 733 ) .

• On 11 November 1998, a rolled Boeing 747-400 with the air vehicle registration HL7414 on the flight from Seoul Gimpo to New York City for the purpose of refueling to the parking position in Anchorage . When trying to make a 180-degree turn, engine 1 hit the wing of a parked Ilyushin Il-62 of Aeroflot (aircraft registration number RA-86564 ). Immediately thereafter, the Boeing's left wing bored into the front of the Ilyushin's vertical stabilizer. The Asiana pilots stepped up the throttle so that their wing cut halfway through the Ilyushin's tail unit. Excessive rolling speed was found to be the main cause. There was no personal injury; the Il-62 had to be scrapped, however.

• On July 28, 2011 at 4:12 a.m. local time, a Boeing 747-400F with the aircraft registration number HL7604 on a flight from Seoul-Incheon to Shanghai with a two-man crew crashed near Jeju-do Island , about 250 miles south of Seoul Sea. The crew had previously reported a fire alarm in the cargo hold and attempted a safety landing at Jeju Airport . According to the Ministry of Transport in Incheon, the cargo plane had loaded 58 tons of cargo, of which around 400 kg were classified as "highly flammable". Among other things, lithium batteries, semiconductors, paint and resin solution were charged (see also Asiana Airlines flight 991 ) .

The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200ER crashed on July 6, 2013 in San Francisco

• On July 6, 2013, a Boeing 777-200ER with the aircraft registration number HL7742 from Seoul-Incheon crashed while approaching San Francisco International Airport . The machine touched down in front of runway 28L and came to a standstill on the tarmac, severely damaged. There were 291 passengers and 16 crew members on board, three people were killed and 181 people injured, 47 of them seriously (see also Asiana Airlines flight 214 ) .

• On April 14, 2015, an Airbus A320-200 with the aircraft registration number HL7762 crashed on the flight from Seoul-Incheon while approaching Hiroshima Airport . The aircraft brushed against an antenna system and hit the ground 330 meters from the runway; the machine finally came to a stop 130 meters from the runway after turning 180 degrees. 27 of the occupants were injured and the aircraft suffered significant property damage.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Asiana Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Asiana Airlines' website (including Korean, English, German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Asiana Airlines Sustainability Report 2015 . Asiana Airlines. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved on August 30, 2016.
2. ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries , accessed on July 7, 2013
3. ↑ Airbus - Asiana Airlines orders 30 aircraft of the A350 family, July 16, 2008 ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 13, 2016
4. ↑ Airbus - Asiana Airlines takes delivery of its first A350 XWB, April 24, 2017 ( memento of April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 24, 2017
5. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Asiana Airlines orders six Airbus A380s, January 7, 2011
6. ↑ Airbus - Asiana Airlines orders six A380 wide-body jets, January 6, 2011 ( memento of February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 7, 2015
7. ↑ aero.de - First Airbus A380 for Asiana Airlines, May 26, 2014 accessed on May 26, 2014
8. ↑ Certified 5-Star Airline Ratings. In: airlinequality.com. Retrieved January 23, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Kumho Asiana Group puts Asiana Airlines up for sale to stay afloat. In: The Korea Times . April 15, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Choi Kyong-ae: (LEAD) Sale of Asiana Airlines on track as planned: KDB chief. In: Yonhap . December 4, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 . 
11. ↑ flyasiana.com - route ( memento of the original from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 21, 2018 
12. ↑ flyasiana.com - Codeshare ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 13, 2016 
13. ^ Asiana Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Airbus - Orders & deliveries (English), accessed on April 24, 2017
15. ↑ flyasiana.com - aircraft information ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 24, 2017 
16. ↑ accident report B 737-500 HL7229 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 5 2020th
17. ↑ The Aviation Herald - Crash: Asiana B744 near Jeju on Jul 28th 2011, fire in cargo hold (English)
18. ↑ aero.de - Boeing-747-400F of Asiana Airlines crashed off South Korea
19. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report for Asiana Airlines flight 214 in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on July 7, 2013.
20. ↑ The Aviation Herald - Crash: Asiana A320 at Hiroshima on Apr 14th 2015, touched down short of runway (English)