WITH China and South Korea having agreed in May to establish direct flights between Seoul Gimpo Airport and Beijing Capital Airport, four airlines will be adjusting their Seoul-Beijing services from July 1.
This is to take advantage of Gimpo’s location nearer Seoul’s city centre.
Air China, which operates four daily flights on a Boeing 737-800 between Beijing and Seoul (Incheon), will be reducing this service to thrice-daily. One daily flight will be diverted to the Beijing-Gimpo route.
China Southern will be halving its twice-daily Airbus A321 service between Beijing and Incheon, and will be launching a daily Beijing-Gimpo flight.
Asiana Airlines and Korean Air, each operating thrice-daily services between Incheon and Beijing, will reduce these to twice-daily. The third daily flight from Beijing will be diverted to Gimpo.
