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Contents 1 1983 2 List 3 Images 4 Gallery 5 Flights to Pyongyang 6 Finnair 7 Past Carriers 8 Best airport 9 Official airport for 2014 olympics 10 Charter flights 11 Future Airlines

[edit] 1983

In 1983, a plane of Korean Air going to Seoul was bombed after accidentally invading Russian airspace and ignoring Russian pilots' warnings.

At that time, Incheon International Airport didn't exist. soax 13:28 Jan 15, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] List

I don't know where the passenger figures in the article are coming from, but ACI certainly disagrees: [1]. In 2003, Asia's top 5 were HND, BKK, HKG, NRT and SIN. Jpatokal 16:49, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, but an article that came out in the Herald Tribune two weeks ago listed the top Asian international airports in the following order: Hong Kong+Changi+Incheon+Narita+Bangkok.

[edit] Images

I've added new images to replace the ones I put up several months ago, since the initial photgraphs were put up without permission from their copyright holder. I took the new photos myself, so there should be no more problems about copyright and such.

[edit] Gallery

Incheon Airport	Incheon Airport - Arrivals	Incheon Airport - Departures	Incheon Airport - Exhibition Hall
Incheon Airport - Entrance

[edit] Flights to Pyongyang

Pyongyang is approximately only 130-140 miles north of the airport, so why aren't there any flights to and from there?

Because Pyongyang is in North Korea and technically South Korea and North Korea are still at war. See Korean War. However, for the past few years ministers from both countries have been meeting regularly and are working towards reducing tensions between them and to reopen communications, travel, etc. Lets hope all wars end soon and people realize that life is short and should be lived happily instead of fighting over things all the time. sikander 01:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finnair

Where does the information concerning Finnair launching Incheon flights in 2007 come from? Yes, it's being rumored, but nothing is official yet.

[edit] Past Carriers

Someone is constantly putting a list of past carriers of Gimpo airport (the other Seoul airport, now a domestic airport, except for Tokyo flights). I believe that it is irrelevant to the current article, which is for Incheon airport. What's the rationale for the list? Thoughts anyone? Elektrik Blue 82 07:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Best airport

In paragraph 3,

It was recently voted the world's best airport in service and quality by the IATA.

I can't find a reference to this on IATA's site. Perhaps the writer meant ACI instead? --69.157.124.140 23:12, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Just looked it up....This is one article, there are more. "....2nd IATA/ACI's AETRA Survey revealed IIA as the "Best Airport Worldwide,"a kind of overall ranking category on March 7 just a few ...." Excerpt from http://www.newsworld.co.kr/cont/0603/46.htm

[edit] Official airport for 2014 olympics

[2] states that the Yangyang International Airport will be upgraded for transportation to and from the Olympics.

[edit] Charter flights

I've noticed that some disagree that charter flights being listed on this page. Let me point out that I have only listed regular charter flights. These flights are regularly scheduled. It would be impossible to list those that occur randomly. I believe that this information should be on here, as it is on many other airport pages (at least 10). If you believe that it shouldn't be here, I won't add it again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.80.186.114 (talk • contribs).

They may be regularly scheduled, but the fact that regular passengers CANNOT book these flights is the reason why these cannot be listed here. There may be a regular charter flight from ICN to FNJ, but still a civilian cannot book this and fly the route. That is why we do not list these here. The lists of the destinations are meant to be a guide to regular passengers on where the airlines fly to. It just happens that two carriers are being chartered frequently to a point that it is scheduled. Elektrik Blue 82 18:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Understood. I'll help by removing them from other airport pages also. It's just that other sysops keeps reverting it back to a version with that information. I'm not saying that I agree with you, I'm just saying that I won't question your decision. Unlike you, I don't believe that wikipedia airport pages to be meant as a guide for regular passengers. I see it as a page for information like a printed encyclopedia. As such I believe that it should include those information. Anyways, I won't add those information again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.80.186.114 (talk • contribs).

If you really think that it is noteworthy to include the regular charters in the page, then I would suggest you can insert a sentence or two about them in the main text. However, giving them a separate sub-heading and listing them doesn't seem a good idea to me, because that somehow gives them the same status as the regular scheduled flights. Elektrik Blue 82 12:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Future Airlines

I had at one time confirmed everyone of those future airlines, but since it has now been deleting on accusations that it is mere speculation, I've decided to hunt down all the reference sources once again whenever I have time.

• Air Sahara (http://www.allair.org/air-sahara/) States that flights to seoul is now planned.
• Qantas (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/227988/1/.html) Temporary flights during new year

These announcements do not come from the airlines themselves. Even the Qantas seasonal flights do not have a start date. Once you find an announcement from the airlines' website, then you're free to list them. Elektrik Blue 82 13:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)