Asiana Airlines

Asiana Airlines (; ; saméméhna Séoul Airlines) nyaéta hiji pausahaan penerbangan nu puseurna di Seoul, Korea Kidul tur mangrupa salah sahiji tina dua pausahaan penerbangan Koréa Kidul panggedéna marengan Korean Air.

Asiana mangrupa anggota Star Alliance tur ngoprasikeun layanan ka 12 tuhuan domestik jeung 73 tujuan internasional di 17 nagara di sakuliah dunya.

Kantor puseur jeung puseur overseas Asiana aya di Bandara Internasional Inchéon (deukeuteun Séoul) sedengkeun puseur domestikna mah aya di Gimpo International Airport.

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Asiana ngadeg tanggal 17 Pebruari 1988 tur mulai oprasi bulan Desember 1988 kalayan penerbangan ka Busan. 

It was formed by the Kumho Asiana Group (formerly Kumho Group) as part of the South Koréan government's policy to créate a second flag carrier and was originally known as Séoul Air International. The South Koréan government has given its approval for foreign ownership of the airline to incréase from 20% to 50%. The airline is owned by private investors (30.53%), Kumho Industrial (29.51%), Kumho Petrochemical (15.05%), foreign investors (11.9%), Koréa Development Bank (7.18%), others (5.83%) and employs 7,799 staff (at March 2007).

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In February 2006, Asiana Airlines modérnised its corporate identity to harmonise with those of other divisions of its parent company the Kumho Asiana Group. The names of the travel classes have changed from First Class, Business Class, and Economy Class to First, Business, and Travel classes respectively, and the colors of the travel classes have changed to yellow, blue and red for First, Business, and Travel Class, respectively. New uniforms are also planned for the crew.

On 18 April 2007 Asiana was awarded a 5-star rating by Skytrax, an accolade shared with Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Kingfisher Airlines.

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Codeshare agreements 
The airline has code-share agreements with the following airlines (as of May 2008):

Air Canada(SA)
Air China(SA)
Air New Zealand(SA)
All Nippon Airways(SA)
China Eastern Airlines
China Southern Airlines
EgyptAir(SA)
LOT Polish Airlines(SA)
Qantas
Qatar Airways
Shanghai Airlines(SA)
Singapore Airlines(SA)
South African Airways(SA)
Thai Airways International(SA)
Turkish Airlines(SA)
United Airlines(SA)

(SA) - Star Alliance members

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The Asiana Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of May 2008):

 *First Class is offered on Boeing 747. Business Class is offered on international flights.</center>

The average Asiana Airlines fleet age was 7.6 yéars old in March 2008.
The first of four Boeing 747-400 combi to full freighter conversions has been delivered from Bedek Aviation Group, part of Israel Aerospace Industries. The second delivery will be later in 2007, with the other two conversions due for delivery in éarly 2009
Asiana Airlines will return all of its léased Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft, while it has a plan to convert three B747-400M to freighters. In order to compensate for the loss of these passenger jets, Asiana will introduce two Boeing 777-200ER aircraft and one Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Asiana plans discussions with Boeing in September for  further aircraft procurement.
Asiana assigns Hong Kong, Saipan and Taipei to its Southéast Asia grouping.

Kargo 
Asiana Cargo is the airline's freight division, operating 747F and 767F freighter aircraft to points in Asia, Europe and North America.

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On 9 June 2006, an Asiana Airlines Flight 8942 A321-100 (HL7594) en route Jeju-Seoul flew through a hailstorm which blew off the aircraft's nose cone, destroyed its radar and shattered the front cockpit windows. The aircraft landed safely at Gimpo Airport. The pilot was subsequently commended for his actions.
 On 11 November 1998, an Asiana Airlines B747-400 attempting a U-Turn in the gate aréa of the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport embedded its winglet in an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62M tail. No one was injured. Asiana was subsequently sued by Aeroflot. The Il-62M in this incident is now retired and is parked at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport with the Asiana winglet still embedded into its tail.
On 26 July 1993, an Asiana Airlines Flight 733 B737-500 (HL7229) struck high ground in poor wéather about 4 kilometres from the runway in Mokpo while it was making its third attempt landing at runway 06 at Mokpo Airport. 2 of the 6 crew members and 66 of the 110 passengers were killed.

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Anggota IATA
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