Press Release
JAL & Korean Air Code Share on Haneda - Gimpo Route
Tokyo October 11, 2007: Japan Airlines (JAL) and Korean Air Lines (KAL) agreed today to expand their code share operations to include the airlines' flights operating between Haneda airport, Tokyo and Gimpo airport in Seoul. The agreement will come into effect on October 28, 2007, and is subject to government approval.
Both JAL and Korean Air operate their own twice daily services between the two airports. The code share agreement will enable them to place their airline designator code on each others flights. Tickets for the new code share flights go on sale from October 17, 2007.
At present, JAL including Korean Air Lines code shares serves South Korea on 14 routes with a total of 214 round-trip flights per week, linking Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island to 8 cities Japan. With the addition of the two new daily code share flights to Gimpo, JAL will offer a total of 228 round-trip flights.
JAL and Korean Air Lines first started code sharing in August 1 2004 with flights between Seoul and the regional Japanese cities of Komatsu, Niigata and Sapporo.
JAL's Scheduled Korea Network including code shares(from October 28, 2007)
|
Route |
|
Round Trip Flights per week |
Operating airline |
|
Tokyo (Narita) |
Seoul (Incheon) |
49 flights per week |
JAL(21) KAL (28) |
|
Sapporo |
|
7 flights per week |
KAL |
|
Osaka (Kansai) |
|
35 flights per week |
JAL (14) KAL (21) |
|
Nagoya (Chubu) |
|
21 flights per week |
JAL (7) KAL (14) |
|
Niigata |
|
7 flights per week |
KAL |
|
Fukuoka |
|
18 flights per week |
KAL |
|
Komatsu |
|
4 flights per week |
KAL |
|
Kagoshima |
|
3 flights per week |
KAL |
|
Tokyo (Haneda) |
Seoul (Gimpo) |
28 flights per week |
JAL (14) KAL (14) |
|
Tokyo (Narita) |
Busan |
14 flights per week |
JAL (7) KAL (7) |
|
Osaka (Kansai) |
|
14 flights per week |
JAL (7) KAL (7) |
|
Nagoya (Chubu) |
|
14 flights per week |
JAL (7) KAL (7) |
|
Tokyo (Narita) |
Jeju Island |
7 flights per week |
KAL (7) |
|
Osaka (Kansai) |
|
7 flights per week |
KAL (7) |
New Code share Flight Scheduleon Haneda -Gimpo Route
|
Route |
Flight number |
Days of operation |
Operating carrier |
|
Tokyo (Haneda) - Seoul (Gimpo) |
JL8831/ KE5708 |
Daily |
JAL |
|
|
KE6708/ JL5235 |
Daily |
KAL |
|
|
JL8833/ KE5710 |
Daily |
JAL |
|
|
KE5237/ JL6710 |
Daily |
KAL |
|
Seoul (Gimpo) - Tokyo (Haneda) |
KE6707/ JL5234 |
Daily |
KAL |
|
|
JL8832/ KE5707 |
Daily |
JAL |
|
|
KE6709/ JL5236 |
Daily |
JAL |
|
|
JL8834/ KE5709 |
Daily |
KAL |
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For customer & general enquiries, please contact your local JAL office:www.jal.co.jp/en/information/inter/branch/
Journalists with media enquiries, please contact the press office: stephen.pearlman@jal.com / Tel: 81-3-5460-3109 www.jal.com/en/corporate/
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| HND Gimpo Route.pdf |
