Asiana Airlines

Seoul -Incheon
Seoul Gimpo

Asiana Airlines (Korean: 아시아나 항공 ) is a South Korean airline based in Seoul and based on the local Incheon airport as well as a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance.

History

Asiana Airlines was founded in 1988 by the Kumho Asiana Group. By 1989, overseas flights for Koreans by the military government were strictly regulated and could be undertaken only by the state monopolist Korean Air. An easing began in 1988 through the Olympics. Korean Air could no longer cope with the ensuing onslaught. They allowed the conglomerate Kumho Asiana Group on the establishment of an airline by the name of Asiana Airlines. Flight operations started on 23 December 1988 six leased Boeing 737-400.

The first international flight in 1990 from Seoul to Tokyo and also in 1990 Asiana Airlines was able to take the first Boeing 767 by the manufacturer in reception. Gradually the fleet and the international route network was expanded. 1994 arrived the first cargo -747. For medium - and long-haul Airbus machines also be used in addition to Boeing since 1996.

In March 2003, the country acceded to the airline alliance Star Alliance.

2010 won the Asiana Airline of the Year Award by Skytrax.

In January 2011, Asiana ordered from Airbus six copies of the Airbus A380 - 800 to the list price of € 1.4 billion, which will be delivered from 2014 and used on long-haul routes to North America and Europe.

The low-cost carrier Air Busan is a subsidiary of Asiana Airlines.

Destinations

In international passenger traffic Asiana serves 20 countries and 67 cities on 80 routes, national, she flies to 17 routes to 11 cities. In freight transport, she flies around the world on 16 routes, 14 countries and 19 cities. In Europe, Paris, Frankfurt and London Heathrow will be served in passenger traffic and Vienna, Brussels, Moscow, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London Stansted and Milan -Malpensa are freight goals. Vienna is the destination of Asiana in Europe, which is most commonly associated with cargo flights operated.

Fleet

As of December 2013, the fleet consists of 83 aircraft, Asiana Airlines, with an average age of 9.2 years:

Incidents

On 26 July 1993, the Boeing 737-500 flight flew 733 on landing approach to Mokpo in the rain and poor visibility too low and collided with a mountain. Erroneously, the pilots were assumed to have already flown over the mountain. 66 passengers and 2 crew members died; only 48 of the 116 people on board survived.
On 11 November 1998, the Boeing 747-400 rolled with the registration HL7414 on the flight OZ 211 from Seoul to New York for the purpose of refueling to the parking position in Anchorage. When trying to make a 180 - degree curve, struck engine 1 against the wing of a parked Ilyushin Il -62 of Aeroflot (license plate RA- 86564 ). Immediately thereafter, the left wing of the Boeing drilled into the front of the vertical stabilizer of the Ilyushin. The Asiana pilot gave more gas, so their wing cut the tail of the Ilyushin half. The main cause excessive roll rate was found. There were no personal injuries; The Il -62 had to be scrapped, however.

On July 28, 2011 at 4:12 clock local time, 67 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747- 400F crashed with registration HL7604 on the flight OZ -991 from Seoul to Shanghai with two crew members near the island of Jeju, about 250 miles south of Seoul, into the sea. The crew had previously reported a fire alarm in the cargo compartment and sought a precautionary landing at Jeju airport. The cargo plane was carrying 58 tons of cargo, according to the Transport Ministry in Seoul, of which approximately 400 kg were classified as " flammable ". They were charged, among other lithium batteries, semiconductors, as well as color and resin solution.
On July 6, 2013, the Boeing 777- 200ER with registration HL7742 crashed on the flight 214 from Seoul coming during the landing approach to the airport of San Francisco. The aircraft touched down on runway 28L before and was heavily damaged on the runway to a stop. There were 291 passengers and 16 crew members on board, 3 people were killed and injured 181 people, including 47 heavy.

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