Korean Air will operate four charter roundtrips between Seoul Incheon and Nagasaki in September 2024. The airline is then expected to start scheduled flights on the route from October 27, 2024, Nagasaki Prefecture’s governor Kengo Oishi revealed at a regular press conference on August 21, 2024.
The charter flights will bring tourists from Korea to Nagasaki and will operate as follows:
- KE9757 / Seoul Incheon – Nagasaki / 4:25PM – 5:55PM / Sep. 13, 16, 19
- KE9758 / Nagasaki – Seoul Incheon / 6:55PM – 8:45PM / Sep. 16, 19, 22
The flight from Nagasaki to Seoul Incheon on September 13, 2024, and in the other direction on September 22, 2024, will be operated as ferry flights without passengers onboard. While the ferry flights are expected to operate based on the same schedule as the revenue flights above, they will use different flight numbers.
Korean Air will use Boeing 737-900ER aircraft with 173 seats in including eight in business and 165 in economy class on the route.
The details of the scheduled flights have not been released yet. According to Oishi, who is expected to visit Korean Air in Seoul from August 22, 2024, to discuss the route, the airline is still working out the exact details.
Once the scheduled flights resume, it will be the first time in over five years for Nagasaki to have scheduled non-stop flights to Seoul since Air Soul suspended its flights from Incheon in March 2019. Korean Air last operated the route in early 2013.
