Korean Air begins A321neo-operations

On 30 November 2022, Korean Air officially celebrated the entry into commercial of its newest aircraft type, the Airbus A321neo. The aircraft in question, A321-200NX HL8505 (10977) had already arrived in South Korea on 27 October 2022 when it was delivered from Hamburg-Finkenwerder to Seoul-Gimpo with a stop at Tashkent. Since then the Airbus has been used for crew-training flights, mainly between Seoul-Gimpo and Seoul-Incheon and Seoul-Gimpo to Jeju.

Korean Air has a total of 30 A321neos on order, with options on another twenty. It plans to deploy the aircraft on domestic and intra-Asian flights. Earlier this year, the airline also took delivery of its first of 30 Boeing B737-8s.

In total, Korean Air is now operating a fleet of 157 aircraft, consisting of ten Airbus A220-300s, one A321-200NX, eight A330-200s, 21 A330-300s, ten A380-800s, one Boeing B737-700BBJ, two B737-800s, ten B737-900s, six B737-900ERs, five B737-8s, one B747-400, four B747-400Fs, nine B747-8s, seven B747-8Fs, ten B777-200ERs, four B777-300s, 25 B777-300ERs, twelve B777Fs, one B787-8BBJ, and ten B787-9s.

Photo by Airbus.