By the end of the year, Korean Air will increase its foreign flight capacity to half of what it was before COVID. The increasing demand for travel that resulted from the relaxation of Covid-19-related restrictions is to blame for this. In an endeavor to meet the growing demand, the airline plans to resume flights on a few of its foreign routes and hire more workers. The sky team carrier will return its Airbus A380 into service on Asian routes later in the year as part of a capacity ramp up.

One-third of the 120 international flights that Korean Air offered when the pandemic struck the airline sector in early 2020 are still in operation today. Beginning in July, Korean Air will increase the number of flights on some international routes to the US, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia while also restarting some of those routes.

According to the government’s flight restoration plans, the carrier had originally intended to increase the number of its foreign flights to 50% of the 2019 level by the end of 2022. The Transport Ministry declared in April that it would support regional airlines in bringing the number of inbound and outgoing flights back to 50% of the 2019 level by the end of the year. To meet the growing demand for travel, the carrier expects to start operating the A380 superjumbo on routes to New York, Hong Kong, and Japan in July.