seoul incheon To Washington Dulles In April, at peak summer time with highest demand and rents. It is also planning charter flights to Las Vegas in January.
According to booking data for the 12 months through September 2025, Incheon-Dulles had 124,000 round-trip passengers. When all DC-area airports were combined, the market had a total passenger traffic of 154,000. it will be a direct competition Korean Air To Dulles. This will be the first time there will be two carriers in the market,
Air Premia to Dulles
Although not yet booked, airroutes suggest Air Premia has plans Four-weekly operation to DullesWith the schedule shown below. First flight to take off from South Korea 24 AprilSince it would avoid flying over Russian airspace, flights back to Asia are blocked until 15 hours 25 minutesOn this basis, the new route becomes Air Premia’s longest US link,
Ch-Aviation Shows Air Premia Has Eight Boeing 787-9S, Whose average is 7.4 years. The ninth frame, which is ex-Korean Air, is coming soon. Its aircraft have various capabilities and configurations. Seats vary from 309 to 344. Flightradar24 shows that different layouts are used on US routes.
As mentioned earlier, the broader Seoul-DC market had 154,000 passengers last year. Since Air Premia has no network to provide a feed, it exists only on the point-to-point market. Working long hours is exceptionally difficult. Other carriers do so, but some, like Norse Atlantic, suffer heavy losses.
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Day |
Incheon to Dulles; local time* |
Dulles to Incheon; local time** |
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Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday |
10:05 am-10:50 am (13 hours 45 minutes); same day arrival |
1:20pm-5:45pm+1 (15 hours 25 minutes, |
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*Based on first week of service. Simple Flying’s new time format |
**Based on first week of service. Shown in Simple Flying’s new time format |
Air Premia plans 5 US routes (for now)
The carrier’s US launch is slated for 2022, when 
los angeles Flights started. It flew to Newark and San Francisco in 2023, followed by Honolulu in 2025 (it had some time-limited Honolulu flights in 2024). A year ago, the carrier revealed it would launch flights to Seattle, but has not officially announced the route.
Following the entry of Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian from Seattle to Seoul in September 2025, the market now has four carriers: Alaska Airlines, Asiana, Delta, and Korean Air. More flights exist in 2025 than in any other year. Apparently, this is more than enough capacity for now. However, Air Premia may get a suitable differentiation when the merger of Asiana and Korean Air is finally completed.
let’s pay attention to this first week of may 2026When Dulles flights will resume. As of December 1, and subject to change, Cirium Dio data shows that Air Premia plans to 31 weekly flights to AmericaIt will fly 11 times a week to Los Angeles, daily to Newark, five times a week to San Francisco and four times a week to both Honolulu and Washington Dulles, There were 15 departures available in the same seven days in 2025,
When? All Passenger airlines are considered, 242 weekly departures will exist between Seoul and the US (except US territories in the Pacific). Thus, Air Premia will have 13% of the market, which has almost doubled in a year, albeit from a very low base.
Revealed: Shockingly low load factors of Ethiopian Airlines’ US flights
The load on four routes did not exceed 64.1%.
DC Area’s Top Asian Markets
Let’s combine the DC-area airports: Dulles, Reagan and Baltimore. As of September, they collectively had about 1.5 million passengers to/from Asia (except the Middle East). This equates to more than 4,100 daily passengers.
At the urban level, Tokyo was the most trafficked market (185,000). Seoul (154,000), followed by Hyderabad (133,000), Delhi (111,000), Manila (97,000), Ho Chi Minh City (79,000), Mumbai (69,000), Beijing (66,000), Bangkok (58,000), and Chennai (49,000). Air India to discontinue its Delhi-Dulles flights in June 2025.
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