Air Route Between Korea and Poland Expands for the First Time in 10 Years

Results of Korea-Poland Aviation Talks: Total Traffic Rights Increased to 5 Weekly Flights
New Traffic Rights Established for Busan Departures

The air route between Korea and Poland will expand for the first time in 10 years.

On the 20th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it held an aviation meeting with the Polish Civil Aviation Authority and the UK Department for Transport for the first time in 10 years since 2013, agreeing to increase international air transport rights.

Through this aviation meeting, the passenger transport rights between Korea and Poland will increase from the current 5 times per week to 7 times per week. In particular, to revitalize regional airports and facilitate long-distance travel for local residents, a new route between Busan and Poland will be established with 3 flights per week.

Poland, where many of our companies' production facilities are located, is a key partner country for establishing a foothold in the Central and Eastern European markets. Recently, the Korean government has been strengthening cooperation with Poland in various fields such as defense industry, plant projects, and support for Ukraine's reconstruction.

Through the aviation talks with the UK, the existing clause requiring bilateral agreements between airlines of both countries, which had restricted the operation of cargo flights by Korean airlines, was abolished, enabling an expansion of cargo flight operations between Korea and the UK.

Previously, on the Korea-London (Heathrow, Gatwick) routes, unilateral cargo flights without agreement with the counterpart airline were allowed only once per week, and separately agreed shared-revenue cargo flights twice per week had to be operated concurrently. However, this clause has now been abolished.

Additionally, reflecting the UK's withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), it was agreed that designated UK airlines must be effectively owned and controlled by British nationals rather than EU citizens in the future.

Kim Young-guk, Director General of Aviation Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "With this agreement, human and material exchanges with the European region will become more active. Furthermore, once the new Gimhae-Warsaw route is launched, businesspeople and residents outside the capital region will be able to travel directly to Europe from Gimhae Airport."

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