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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- airline
- Official name
- 조선민항
- Country
- North Korea
- Headquarters
- Pyongyang
- Legal form
- state-owned enterprise
- Official website
- www.airkoryo.com.kp/?__lang=en_US
- Image
- Air Koryo Antonov An-148-100B.jpg
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- start of work period
- 1955-09-21
- IATA airline designator
- JS
- ICAO airline designator
- KOR
- item operated
- Tupolev Tu-204
- Commons category
- Air Koryo
- airline hub
- Pyongyang International Airport
- inception
- 1955-09-21
- location of formation
- Pyongyang
- airline accounting code
- 120
- native label
- 고려항공
- street address
- Sunnan Airport, Sunnan District, Pyongyang, North Korea
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Encyclopedic overview
Founded21 September 1955 70 years ago (1955-09-21) (as Korean Airways) HubsPyongyang International Airport Focus citiesBeijing, Shenyang, Vladivostok Fleet size6 (for international routes) Destinations4 Parent companyNational Aviation Administration of the DPRK HeadquartersRyongbung-ri, Sunan District, Pyongyang, North Korea Key peopleAn Pyong-chil (Director of the General Bureau of Civil Aviation) Websitewww.airkoryo.com.kp
Air Koryo (Korean: 고려항공) is North Korea's flag carrier and only commercial airline. It is state-owned and controlled by the North Korean air force. Headquartered in Sunan-guyŏk, Pyongyang, it operates domestic and international routes – on a regular schedule only to Beijing, Shenyang, and Vladivostok – from its hub at Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport. It also operates flights on behalf of the North Korean government, with one of its aircraft serving as North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un's personal plane. Its small fleet consists of Ilyushin and Tupolev aircraft from the Soviet Union and Russia, and Antonovs from the Soviet Union and Ukraine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Air Koryo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.