Korean Air

Korean Air 대한 항공
IATA code :	KE
ICAO code :	CAL
Call sign :	KOREANAIR
Founding:	1962
Seat:	Seoul , South Korea
Turnstile :	Seoul Incheon
Home airport :	Seoul Incheon
Company form:	Co. Ltd.
IATA prefix code :	180
Management:	Cho Won-tae
Number of employees:	20,543 (2014)
Sales:	₩ 11.6 trillion (2014)
Passenger volume:	23.3 million (2014)
Alliance :	SkyTeam
Frequent Flyer Program :	SKYPASS
Fleet size:	173 (+ 63 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.koreanair.com

Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. ( Korean 대한 항공 , daehan hanggong ) is the national airline of South Korea , based in Seoul and based at Incheon Airport . It is a founding member of the SkyTeam aviation alliance and is active in both passenger transport and air freight ( Korean Air Cargo ).

history

Korean Air Lines Boeing 747-SP in 1985

The airline was founded in 1962 as Korean Air Lines (KAL for short), but goes back to Korean National Airlines from 1947. In 1984 it was renamed Korean Air . In the 1960s, the state-owned Korean Air Lines found itself in a serious economic crisis. The airline could only be saved through privatization in 1969. Korean Air has since been part of the Hanjin Group , which also includes the Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard .

In the years that followed, the airline continued to grow. In 1971 a transpacific route to America was introduced and cargo flights were carried out for the first time under the name Korean Air Cargo . In 1972 the first Boeing 747-100 and Airbus A300 ordered were delivered, with Korean Air Lines becoming the first operator of the A300 in Asia .

In the 1980s, other destinations, such as New York City , were served. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , routes to Moscow were added.

In 2000, Korean Air founded the airline alliance SkyTeam with Aeroméxico , Air France and Delta Air Lines, which became the second largest alliance after Star Alliance .

On October 23, 2003, Korean Air ordered a total of ten A380-800s from Airbus ; on May 24, 2011 the first was delivered. All machines are equipped with a duty-free shop on board. Korean Air will also receive a total of 17 Boeing 747-8s. Both the passenger version 8I and the freight version 8F were ordered.

In April 2013 the company took over the almost 44% stake held by the Czech consolidation agency in Czech Airlines for the equivalent of 2.6 million euros .

With Jin Air , founded in 2007 , Korean Air operates a low-cost airline .

Korean Air Aerospace Division

Korean Air is also engaged in aerospace research and production. The Korean Air Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) produces licensed versions of the MD Helicopters MD 500 and Sikorsky UH-60 helicopters and the Northrop F-5E / F combat aircraft. Fuselage parts and wings for the Korean General Dynamics F-16 (KF-16) built under license by Korea Aerospace Industries were produced, as well as parts for various civil aircraft types, including the Boeing 737 , Boeing 747 , Boeing 777 , Boeing 787 and Airbus A330 and Airbus A380 .

In 1991, the Aerospace Division designed and flew the Korean Air Chang-Gong 91 light aircraft . Korean Air has also been developing UAVs since 2004, such as the KUS-7 , which first flew in 2007.

In addition to servicing its own aircraft, Korean Air also performs maintenance for the American military in Asia and maintains a research department with a focus on launchers, satellites, commercial aircraft, military aircraft, helicopters and simulation systems.

In October 2012, a Korean consortium including Korea Aerospace Industries and Korean Air entered into an agreement with Bombardier Aerospace to develop a 90-seat turboprop airliner.

Destinations

Korean Air flies from Incheon Airport near Seoul to cities within South Korea and many destinations in all of Asia , Europe , Oceania , North and South America and the Middle East . In German-speaking countries are Frankfurt , Vienna and Zurich served.

Code sharing

Korean Air has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: ( SkyTeam members are marked with * )

Aeroflot * Aerolíneas Argentinas * Aeromexico * Air Europa * Air France * Air Tahiti Nui American Airlines

Alaska Airlines Alitalia * China Airlines * China Eastern Airlines * China Southern Airlines * Czech Airlines * Delta Air Lines *

Emirates Etihad Airways Garuda Indonesia * Gol Linhas Aéreas Hainan Airlines Hawaiian Airlines Japan Airlines

Jin Air KLM * Kenya Airways * LATAM Airlines Malaysia Airlines MIAT Mongolian Airlines

Myanmar Airways International Saudi Arabian Airlines * Shanghai Airlines Uzbekistan Airways Vietnam Airlines * Westjet Airlines Xiamen Airlines *

fleet

Korean Air Boeing 737-800

Korean Air Airbus A330-300

Boeing 747-400ERF of Korean Air Cargo

Korean Air Boeing 777-300ER

Current fleet

As of March 2020, the Korean Air fleet consists of 173 aircraft with an average age of 10.1 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Airbus A220-300	10		+ 10 options and pre-sale rights each	127 (- / - / 127)
Airbus A321neo		30th	+ 20 options	- open -
Airbus A330-200	8th		HL8212 in SkyTeam special livery	218 (6/24/188)
Airbus A330-300	21st			272 (6/18/248) 276 (6/18/252) 296 (12/28/256) 352 (- / 24/328)
Airbus A380-800	10		with duty-free shop on board	407 (12/94/301)
Boeing 737-700 (BBJ)	1		Business jet	VIP
Boeing 737-800	7th		equipped with winglets ; 2 in SkyTeam special livery	138 (- / 12/126) 147 (- / 12/135) 149 (- / 8/141) 150 (- / 12/138)
Boeing 737-900	16			188 (- / 8/180)
Boeing 737-900ER	6th		equipped with winglets	159 (- / 12/147)
Boeing 737 MAX		30th	+ 20 options	- open -
Boeing 747-400	2			365 (12/45/308)
Boeing 747-400ERF	4th		Cargo aircraft of Korean Air Cargo	-
Boeing 747-8I	10		first delivery on August 25, 2015	368 (6/48/314)
Boeing 747-8F	7th		Korean Air Cargo cargo planes	-
Boeing 777-200ER	14th			301 (12/28/261)
Boeing 777F	12		Korean Air Cargo cargo planes	-
Boeing 777-300	4th			338 (6/35/297)
Boeing 777-300ER	26th	2	3 in special paints; 2 orders leased from ALC	291 (8/56/227)
Boeing 787-8		1		VIP
Boeing 787-9	10		originally 787-8 were ordered	269 ​​(6/18/245)
Eurocopter EC135 P2 +	5			k. A.
total	173	63

Previously deployed aircraft

Korean Air Lines Boeing 727-100 in 1976

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 of Korean Air Lines in 1983

In the past, Korean Air operated, among others, the following types of aircraft:

• Airbus A300B4-100 / 600R
• Boeing 707-300C / 320B
• Boeing 720
• Boeing 727-100 / -200
• Boeing 747-100
• Boeing 747-200
• Boeing 747-200SF
• Boeing 747-300
• Boeing 747-300SF
• Boeing 747-400F
• CASA C-212
• Douglas DC-3
• Douglas DC-4
• Douglas DC-8
• Douglas DC-9
• Fairchild F-27
• Fokker F-27
• Fokker F28
• Fokker 100
• Lockheed Super Constellation
• Lockheed Starliner
• McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
• McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
• McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• NAMC YS-11

Incidents

Korean Air has had a total of 17 total losses of aircraft under its various names since 1969, five of which were Boeing 747s . 726 people were killed in 10 of them. Extracts:

• On August 2, 1976, an intact Boeing 707-373C ( aircraft registration number HL7412) on a Korean Air cargo flight hit a mountain after taking off from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport , as the pilots had steered to the right instead of to the left. All five people on board were killed.

• On April 20, 1978, a Boeing 707-300B was shot at by Soviet interceptors on its flight from Paris via Anchorage to Seoul near Murmansk and forced to make an emergency landing. The machine unintentionally changed course and thereby penetrated Soviet airspace. Because the pilots ignored the request to follow the Sukhoi Su-15 , two interceptor missiles were fired. Two passengers lost their lives and one wing was damaged. There was an emergency landing, after which the other 97 passengers and twelve crew members were rescued by the Russians. (see also Korean Air Lines flight 902 )

• On November 19, 1980, a continued Boeing 747-200B (HL7445) on the Gimpo Airport about 100 meters off the runway and slid on his stomach on the airport grounds. In the fire that broke out, 15 of the 212 people on board died; the machine was destroyed (see also Korean Air Lines flight 015 ) .

• On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Air Force shot down a Boeing 747-200B which had gone off course and penetrated into Soviet airspace near Sakhalin ; all 269 inmates died. (see also Korean Air Lines flight 007 )

• On 23 December 1983, the crew launched a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (HL7339) on the Anchorage airport from the wrong runway . The cargo plane rammed a nine-person Piper PA-31 Navajo of South Central Air, then overshot the runway end by around 450 m and was irreparably damaged. All occupants of both machines survived the collision, but some were seriously injured.

• On November 29, 1987, a bomb brought on board by two North Korean agents exploded over the Andaman Sea on board a Boeing 707 on the flight from Baghdad via Abu Dhabi , Bangkok to Seoul . The assassin, the North Korean secret agent Kim Hyon-hui, testified in her questionable confession that she smuggled the bomb on board on instructions from Kim Jong-il (see also Korean Airlines flight 858 ) . All 115 people on board the Boeing 707-300C were killed.

• On July 27, 1989, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (HL7328) flew into the area while approaching Tripoli International Airport shortly before landing. In addition to four people on the ground, 75 aircraft occupants were killed (see also Korean Air flight 803 ) .

• On November 25, 1989, when a Fokker F28-4000 (HL7285) took off from Gimpo Airport, a partial loss of thrust occurred . The pilots lost control and aborted take-off, with the machine overshooting the runway end and becoming a total economic loss. All 48 occupants survived the accident.

• On June 13, 1991, the crew of a Boeing 727-200 (HL7350) made a belly landing at Daegu Airport . She had forgotten to extend the landing gear , did not read the checklist required before landing and switched off the warning horn with the associated fuse. Although the plane was destroyed, all 127 people on board survived the accident.

• On 10 August 1994, a continued Airbus A300-600R (HL7350) on the Jeju International Airport while landing until nearly 1,800 meters behind the runway baseline. The remaining 1200 m were not sufficient, the aircraft rolled over the end of the runway at almost 200 km / h, collided with obstacles and caught fire. Nevertheless, all 160 occupants survived the accident.

• On August 6, 1997, a Boeing 747-300 crashed in Guam at Antonio B. Won Pat Airport . In this serious accident 227 people died, 27 survived the crash (see also Korean Air flight 801 ) .

• On August 5, 1998, a Boeing 747-400 (HL7350) crashed at Gimpo Airport when the captain operated the thrust reverser asymmetrically because he did not activate it on one of the engines. The machine came off the runway sideways, with part of the main landing gear being torn off. All 395 people on board were rescued from the destroyed machine.

• On March 15, 1999, the pilots of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (HL7570) landed at Pohang Airport with a tailwind of 20 knots (37 km / h) (a maximum of 10 knots was permitted). When rolling over the end of the runway, the fuselage of the machine broke into two parts. All 156 inmates survived.

• On April 15, 1999, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (HL7570) crashed shortly after taking off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport . Due to misunderstandings and ignorance, a dive into the area was initiated. The three crew members of the cargo plane were killed, as were five bystanders on the ground (see also Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 ) .

• On December 22, 1999, a Boeing 747-200F had an accident shortly after taking off from London Stansted Airport . The four crew members did not survive the accident. The triggering cause of the accident was a defective, unrepaired flight attitude instrument, whose error warning the pilots ignored. When the jet turned, the commander relied on this instrument, causing the machine to spiral out of control and into a nosedive (see also Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 ) .

Trivia

• On December 5, 2014, flight 086 from New York City to Seoul-Incheon with an A380-800 was delayed because a flight attendant Ms. Cho Hyun-ah served macadamia nuts in first class, firstly unsolicited and secondly in the packaging and not on the plate would have. Angry, she then got the plane back to the gate and the purser, as the flight attendant's chief, left the plane. Ms. Cho Hyun-ah is the daughter of Cho Yangho, the head of the airline, and at the time she worked in the airline's management herself. The Cho family own 10% of the shares in Korean Air. A week later, they resigned from all positions and apologized publicly. The case had caused quite a stir and was considered a symbol of a generation of "arrogant and spoiled descendants" of influential family-run South Korean companies. On December 24, 2014, the Korean police arrested an investigator from the Ministry of Transportation, who allegedly exchanged text messages and phone calls with the purser. The purser, on the other hand, is under suspicion of destruction and withholding of evidence. In early 2015, Cho Hyun-ah was sentenced to one year in prison. In May 2015, the sentence on appeal was reduced to a ten-month suspended sentence in the second instance.

See also

• List of airlines

literature

• Frank Littek: Korean Air turns 50. In: AERO International No. 1/2019, pp. 16–21

Web links

Commons : Korean Air  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Korean Air website (including Korean, English, German)
• Korean Air Cargo website (including Korean, English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Korean Air chief to resign from all other posts
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4. ↑ airliners.de - Korean Air purchases from Czech Airlines for 2.6 million euros, April 12, 2013
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32. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report for Korean Airlines flight 2033 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
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