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[Photo News] Korean Air Forest grows bigger in Mongolia

Korea Herald

22-05-2025

Business
Korea Herald

[Photo News] Korean Air Forest grows bigger in Mongolia

Employees of Korean Air and Asiana Airlines participate in a tree-planting volunteer activity during the Korean Air Forest project in the Baganuur District of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Tuesday. The initiative, which began in 2004, marked its first joint event this year following Korean Air's acquisition of Asiana Airlines. Around 260 new hires and current employees from both companies took part in the program, which is being conducted in two phases over a two-week period starting Monday. The Korean Air Forest now has around 125,300 trees from 12 different species—including poplars, Siberian elms and sea buckthorn—chosen for their ability to thrive in Mongolia's arid and harsh conditions.

Time Out

15-05-2025

Entertainment
Time Out

Korea Travel Fair 2025

The Korea Travel Fair spotlights all things Korean, from K-pop dance classes and K-beauty workshops to Seoul-inspired fashion styling sessions. Visitors can explore their personal colour palette with professional analysis and enjoy travel perks like 10 percent off Asiana Airlines flights and up to 50 percent off with Jeju Air. There will also be special appearances by actor Yim Si-wan and singer PUNCH on May 17. More details can be found here.

Asiana Airlines faces backlash for mislabeling Ukrainian cities as Russian territory on in-flight map

Korea Herald

18-04-2025

Politics
Korea Herald

Asiana Airlines faces backlash for mislabeling Ukrainian cities as Russian territory on in-flight map

South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc. on Friday came under fire for mislabeling two Ukrainian cities as part of Russia on its in-flight infotainment system, drawing criticism from Ukrainian nationals and social media users. According to a passenger who shared a photo on Instagram, the cities of Dnipro (formerly Dnepropetrovsk) and Donetsk appeared under Russian territory on the airline's digital map. The labeling is not found on Asiana's official website, suggesting the issue may be limited to the in-flight entertainment platform. In an Instagram direct message exchange, Yuliana Romaniv, the Ukrainian passenger who uploaded the photo on social media, told Yonhap News Agency that the photo was taken Wednesday on an Incheon-London flight. "It was heartbreaking, honestly. Dnipro was never under Russian occupation, so that was a shock for me," Romaniv said. "A lot of Ukrainians lost their loved ones who went to defend those cities, and seeing it labeled as Russian territory was very painful." Romaniv said she notified Asiana Airlines of the blunder via social media "but (I) haven't gotten a response yet." The controversy has prompted angry responses on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. "So now South Korean airlines are siding with Russia? Why? Dnipro and Donetsk are part of Ukraine, not Russia!" one user wrote. Another sarcastically commented, "Seoul is part of North Korea, right?" Romaniv added, "It might be better to see that they're actually trying to fix this; otherwise, people will be getting more upset, I think." Asiana Airlines was recently acquired by local industry leader Korean Air Lines Co. The company has acknowledged the error in its in-flight map and said it has immediately requested the outside software developer to correct the issue. The supplier of the in-flight infotainment system was known to be a unit of Japan's Panasonic Holdings Corp. Ukraine has been engaged in war with Russia since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. Donetsk, a major city in eastern Ukraine, remains under Russian occupation but is internationally recognized as part of Ukrainian territory.

Flight turns around after passenger tries to force plane door open over Indian Ocean

CNN

01-04-2025

Flight turns around after passenger tries to force plane door open over Indian Ocean

A flight carrying more than 200 people from Bali, Indonesia to Melbourne, Australia was forced to turn around after a passenger tried to force open a plane door as the aircraft flew over the Indian Ocean, low-cost carrier Jetstar said in a statement Tuesday. 'We had an aircraft return to Denpasar (Bali's airport) last night after a disruptive passenger attempted to open one of the aircraft doors and was abusive to our crew,' the airline said of the incident on Monday night, March 31. The passenger was removed from the aircraft by local authorities in Bali, it added. According to a video circulating on social media, a woman in the back of the aircraft managed to lift the door's handle before a warning signal alerted the crew, the captain said over the plane speakers. Data from flight tracking site FlightRadar24 showed that the plane turned around over the Indian Ocean about an hour into the flight. Jetstar did not say exactly how many passengers and crew were on the plane traveling from Bali to Melbourne. 'The safety and welfare of our customers and crew is our top priority and we thank them for the way they responded to the situation,' the airline said in its statement. 'This sort of unacceptable behavior will never be tolerated on our flights.' Incidents of unruly passengers have been reported in the past, including of passengers deploying emergency exits and sliding down an evacuation slide, hitting and biting flight attendants, as well as throwing punches at flight crew, forcing aircraft to divert from their intended destination. But aviation authorities are clamping down and enforcing stricter actions. Last year, a passenger was charged in federal court after he forced open a plane door and injured an attendant mid-flight, prompting fellow passengers on the American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Dallas to duct-tape him. In 2023, a man who opened the emergency door of an Asiana Airlines plane just before landing told police that he felt suffocated and wanted to get off the plane quickly. The airline responded by halting the sale of seats near emergency exits on Airbus A321s.

Zawya

11-03-2025

Business
Zawya

Korean Air launches new branding after $1.3bln Asiana acquisition

Korean Air on Tuesday launched new aircraft livery and corporate branding that will be introduced across the airline as it combines with South Korean rival Asiana Airlines to become one of Asia's biggest carriers. South Korea's largest airline in December completed a $1.3 billion acquisition of two-thirds of Asiana, which will be run as a subsidiary for up to two years before integrating under the Korean Air name and corporate identity. The carrier's planes will now sport the word "Korean", instead of "Korean Air", in a larger, modernised, simplified dark blue font, and the top half of the fuselage will be painted light blue, with a new metallic effect. "The updated logo aligns with modern and global minimalist branding trends while preserving the airline's distinct identity," the company said. Korean Air planes since 1984 have had distinctive sky blue and white bodies, and tails decorated with a stylised taeguk, a traditional blue and red Korean symbol for the harmony between opposing forces used on the country's flag. The new tail design features a simplified taeguk in dark blue only. The first plane with the refreshed livery is a Boeing 787-10 that was delivered new to Korean Air last year. Korean Air, a founding member of the SkyTeam airline alliance, was established in 1969 when state-owned Korean Air Lines was taken over by South Korean conglomerate Hanjin Kal . The Asiana acquisition rescued the debt-laden carrier, which was struggling even before a plunge in travel demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. The deal, finalised more than four years after first proposed, was hampered by competition concerns and became the longest-ever merger of airlines to complete. A combined Korean Air group could account for just over half of South Korea's passenger capacity, and would become the world's 12th-largest carrier by international capacity, a Reuters analysis of airline data shows. Korean Air has said it plans to create a single low-cost carrier by combining Asiana's budget carriers Air Busan and Air Seoul with Korean Air's Jin Air. (Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Jamie Freed)