New routes to serve Busan
South Korean carriers go to Japan and China, Malaysia Airlines returns
New routes to serve Busan
S. Korean carriers go to Japan and China, Malaysia Airlines returns
September 30th, 2026. South Korean low-cost carrier, Air Busan, will be launching a regular service between its home base in the south if the country to Kagoshima in the south of Japan’s Kyushu island. The route will operate three times a week on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays commencing on October 25th.
Flight number BX9627 will depart from Busan’s Gimhae International Airport at 15:55 and will land at Kagoshima International Airport at 17:15. The return trip, flight number BX9628, will leave Kagoshima at 18:35 and will arrive back in Busan at 19:40.
An Airbus A321 aircraft will serve the route. The outbound journey will last eighty-five minutes, and the return about sixty-five minutes.
Busan to Xiamen
Four days later, on October 29th, EastarJet will launch a route from Busan to Xiamen. The service will operate twice a week on Sundays and Thursdays.
Flight number ZE975 will depart from Busan at 11:00 and arrive at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport at 12:50. The return journey will leave Xiamen at 13:50 and will arrive back in Busan at 17:20.
A Boeing 737-800 aircraft will serve the route, and the flight time will be two hours and fifty minutes for the outbound flight, and about twenty minutes faster for the return
Kuala Lumpur to Busan
Meanwhile Malaysian Airlines is returning to Busan on December 2nd, after a 28-year absence. The new service will operate four times a week on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, but with two different time slots.
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, flight number MH84 will take off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 01:45 and arrive in Busan at 09:20. The return leg, flight number MH85 will leave Busan at 10:55 and land back in Kuala Lumpur at 16:55.
t weekends, the flight departs from Kuala Lumpur at 11:00 and touches down in Busan at 18:35. It starts its return journey at 20:10, arriving back in Kuala Lumpur at 02:10 the following morning.
The journey time will be six hours and thirty-five minutes for the outbound flight and seven hours for the return. A Boeing 737 Max 8 has been earmarked for the route.
Picture: Air Busan Airbus A321 via Wikimedia Commons
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