Non-landing international tourism flights only available at Incheon Airport, local airports are also allowed

Non-landing international tourism flights, which were allowed only at Incheon International Airport, will also be possible at local airports. You can also shop for duty-free goods by flying the designated section and returning to the departure airport. In addition, the’Travel Bubble’ is also promoted with Singapore and Thailand to significantly ease travel regulations.

On the 3rd, the government announced’plans to overcome the corona crisis in the aviation industry and take a leap again’ containing these details. It supports the aviation industry, which is experiencing extreme difficulties due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), and contains various measures to maintain employment.

First of all, non-landing international tourism flights, which had been allowed only at Incheon International Airport, will be available at local airports in the future. This is a method in which the aircraft taking off from the airport flies to foreign airspace along the designated route, then returns to the departure airport and lands (outbound). Passengers can also buy duty-free goods at the airport.

In addition, non-landing international tourist flights are allowed in the way of departing from a foreign airport, flying through Korean airspace, and then returning to the airport (inbound). Lee Jung-hee, head of the aviation policy section of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “In the future, we will consider inbound international tourism flights such as limiting the movement of passengers to domestic airports or surrounding areas after consultation with the quarantine authorities in consideration of the corona reduction trend and the spread of vaccines.”

Regardless of the purpose of the visit, Singapore and Thailand are promoting a travel bubble that lifts the ban on entry and eases quarantine measures. It is a method that checks the corona voice before departure, and if it is found in the destination country, the quarantine measures are lifted immediately and no restrictions are imposed on subsequent travel.

Various support for the aviation industry, which is suffering from severe management difficulties due to Corona 19, will also continue. First of all, airport facility usage fees, such as bicycle charges, will be reduced, and aircraft acquisition tax and property taxes will also be reduced. In addition, the collection of transport tickets and slots that have not been used for a certain period of time will be postponed.

The new low-cost airline (LCC) has partially eased the conditions for issuing licenses and extended the service conditions originally set for March this year to the end of the year. The process of approving cargo loading for passenger aircraft that has been converted to a freighter is also simplified.

In addition, to stabilize the employment of the aviation industry, the company decided to extend the period of special employment and improve the employment maintenance subsidy system in the direction of allowing daily wages during the leave period and receiving training to maintain qualifications for aviation workers.

In the case of Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, which are in the process of consolidation, overlapping routes with similar departure times will broaden consumers’ choices by diversifying flight times. In this way, for the Incheon-New York route, the departure times, which were concentrated in the 10 am and 7 to 8 pm periods, will vary from 8 am and 10 am, and 3 pm and 8 pm

Transportation reporter Gap-saeng Kang [email protected]