Transport | Jeju Air inaugurates new Macau–Seoul route

Seok-Joo Lee

South Korean airline Jeju Air yesterday inaugurated a new route connecting Macau to Seoul’s Incheon airport.
In a ceremony held yesterday afternoon at the departure hall of the Macau International Airport (MIA) to celebrate the inauguration flights, Eric Fong, the director of the Airport Company (CAM) Marketing Department noted that the growth in outbound travel from South Korea has become an important source market for Macau. “According to the statistics, passengers of the Korean market from MIA posted a growth of 85 percent from January to September this year,” he said.
Fong also remarked that in addition to the growing interest from South Korean nationals in visiting Macau, South Korean destinations are in turn some of the local residents’ favorites, especially during the winter season.
On this topic Fong said, “these services will be in time to satisfy the Christmas peak season for travel [to Korea] in the coming December.”
Jeju Air’s vice president Seok-Joo Lee commented on the successful opening of the company’s new routes, remarking that all of the newly opened links have brought success for both the company and the destinations, the latter benefiting from the new inbound tourists, and expressed his certainty that the same will happen with this new route to Macau.
“Whenever Jeju Air launched a new route we were not only creating opportunities to grow our market size and share but it was always a win-win situation, for Jeju Air and for the destinations as well. This time this will happen again. Expect more tourists to come from Korea and from Jeju Air,” he said.
The airliner will operate the new route on a daily basis, with a flight arriving from Korea at 1.50p.m. before departing Macau at 2.50pm to return to Incheon, located close to the South Korean capital.