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 Posted: Sat 10:04, 30 Mar 2013 Post subject: Nike free Skor British Airways back in Seoul after |
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After more than a decade, British Airways (BA) will start flying to Korea again this December, with six nonstop flights a week between Incheon and Heathrow.?
Tickets began selling May 3.?
The airline's last direct flight to the peninsula was in 1998, when the . Hard. Hard enough to knock BA out of Korean airspace for a while.?
Korean Air and Asiana were the only airlines that provided nonstop service from Korea to the United Kingdom.?
"But over the last 14, nearly 15 years Korea has demonstrated blinding progress, economically, climbing to the top in several rankings," said?Kyoyoung Song, sales manager at BA's Korean office.?South Korea's GDP ranked 15th from the top as of 2010, according to??from the World Bank.
And with so much money floating around, the British flag-carrier wants a slice of the pie,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].?
Business travelers are welcoming the prospect of more routes between Britain and Korea.?
"Very good news -- no more Korean Air!" commented one reader on the Business Traveller Asia website, under the handle "Agamemnon."?
But what's with the timing? BA could have debuted during the summer months of the London Olympics. Instead, flights will resume on ,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].?
According to Song BA's Korean comeback has less to do with the shuttling of athletes and spectators and more to do with the shuttling of business travelers and travelers in general,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].?
BA has experienced an influx of additional personnel and resources in the wake of its parent company IAG's recent acquisition of?British Midland airways.?
"That, together with Korea's newly gained financial weight, is what provided the necessary wherewithal for the return," said Song.?
Who needs the Olympics, anyway? As it stands, the number of travelers that fly to Britain from South Korea is about 200,000 a year. That's about 20 percent of all the travelers who fly to Europe, according to Song.?
And with BA opening yet another way to London, we're guessing that the number isn't going to go down.?
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