Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, said Thursday that it will begin to cut the number of flights to two Japanese cities next month as a weaker yen takes its toll on the airline business.
The carrier said it will cut its number of weekly flights to four from the current seven on the Incheon-Sendai route, beginning early next month.
Sendai is one of the places hit hardest by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Asiana, however, said the planned cut has nothing do with Japan’s radiation leak.
Asiana also said it will begin to slash its number of weekly flights to five from the current seven on the Incheon-Shizuoka in October.
The planned move comes as the number of Japanese tourists visiting South Korea slumped amid the yen’s decline. (Yonhap News)
