NEWS FLASH
Korean Air has commenced operations from Seoul to Zagreb with its 269-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, which will be utilised on the route until the start of the 2019 summer season on March 31. The jet can seat six passengers in first class, eighteen in business (prestige) and the remaining 245 in economy class. It marks a slight increase in capacity from the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft which was used on the route up until this points. As of late March, Korean Air will deploy its three-class 218-seat Airbus A330-200 aircraft between the two cities. The President of Korean Air, Won-Tae Cho, previously said that the next generation of fuel efficient jets, such as the Boeing 787-9, will allow the airline to "reduce costs and improve the business". Mr Won-Tae Cho added, "This will give us an opportunity to improve our results and further expand in markets such as Croatia. We will focus on various overseas routes".
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| Korean Air B787 first class seat |
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| Korean Air B787 business class seat |
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| Korean AIr B787 exonomy class seat |
Comments
In November and December they had less than 50% LF to/from ZAG! horrible!
Very well done, Zagreb!!
Verz good point
Also what are the projections of the route? Will it become daily?
On some flights in November and December there were no more than 20-30 passengers to ZAG!
Their routes usually include flying to Germany and than visiting few more countries (Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic) by bus.
Only Frankfurt has 3 daily flights from ICN (today for example 1xA380, 1xB747, 1xB777)
Return flight is usually from the same airport where they landed.
Therefore you see Koreans in Zagreb but LF is terrible.
ZaG-ICN 11-25th May - 905€
ICN-ZAG same dates - 1053€
ZAG-ICN 4-18th June - 855€
ICN-ZAG same dates - 975€
You can fly via AMS same dates for 640€ with nice transfer times in AMS.
This clearly shows how this route is sold mainly to tour-operators.
November and December 2018 will be a good lesson for them
https://i.imgur.com/335rMMB.jpg
There is really no jeaulosy, just reality.
Couple of days ago I mentioned here that KE LF on ICN-ZAG was terrible in November and December, but I was blamed to spread fake news. And at that time someone also mentioned jeaulosy.
Now we see more and more people confirm it and suddenly we do not speak anymore about bad LF, but we speak again about jeaulosy only because very realistic alternative has been mentioned that KE will probably fly seasonally to ZAG.
Really.
In which hole will you hide when the official numbers come?
Haters gonna hate, but Zagreb has the BEST airlines landing and taking off its tarmac.
Some people here are so jealous, because their airports can't reach the ZAG horizons.
Seoul has 2 airports, so it would make sense to launch flights from Gimpo or S Korea's second biggest city Jeju.
You talking nonsense, I've seen the numbers for November and first half of December, they are above 57%, the lowest is 52%, on some days numbers are around 80% on some fall down to 52%. Korean Air is quite happy with the result, they didn't expect to do more than 60% on the route in winter months, cause of Zurich stop, they're working on getting 5th freedom. so they can fly passengers between Zurich and Zagreb. The Route is shared between Zagreb and Zurich, so flights are always split two ways, 50% lf on the route is a good result.
Anon 15:28
Is it interesting you don't know that Gimpo is mainly used for domestic routes and has only few international destinations and not at one intercontinental?
From Gimpo you can fly internationally only to Beijing, Osaka, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.
And you want to have GMP - ZAG?
Hilarious!
Ovaj Boeing787 je definitivno Rolls-Royce na nebu,apsolutno najbolji u klasi.
Mainly domestic but also international but to nearby destinations such as GIG, MVD, etc.
I got your point about GMP, though. It's quite limited as an airport.
Very limited airport for international flights
15:02 is right, some claimed RV would kick out TS, then eventually upgrade from Rouge to AC and go Dreamliner all year long! Turns out, Transat will now offer more seats from Toronto to Croatia during key months of Jul/Aug than Air Canada Rouge.
Dok u bivsoj Jugoslaviji postojala je samo jedna takva masina za proizvodnju krila borbenih prototipova aviona, trenutno danas u 2019 godini jedini specijalisti za proizvodnju industriskih masina za ultra-moderni materijal carbon-fiber je takozvani MicroSAM fabrika 203 Makedonija,bivsi sef proizvodnje je bio iz grad Ohrid, sad je neki drugi ali bitno je da jos uvjek aktivno posluju.
Either prove your claims or be prepared to be called out for spreading fake nonsense.
Everyone can do that. Look: You're all wrong, I have the real load numbers for the last couple of months, all the way to 12/31 and they are on average 55% from ICN to ZAG alone. Prove me wrong.
Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Either give proof of Transat leaving or stop spreading fake news.
It's not an obsession, at least not on my part. I just used it as an example when someone wrote that loads are poor in winter, they were also attacked by the same pack of wolves. When the flight was downgraded to Flydubai, the tune changed with statements "Bravo Zagreb, A B737 is an upgrade compared to the B777 etc".
Btw 9.13 was my first comment on this post but reading the comments here, as in any Croatia related topic, it's just when there is any criticism or any negative comment it's as if that person should be banished. The purpose of this site is to discuss aviation news, not to write endlessly "Bravo [insert country]" and live in some parallel universe. The politicians in this region do a good enough job of that, but now I realize why those exact politicians are in power.