Korean Air (KE) flights & route network
292 routes · 118 destinations · 5 hub airports across 46 countrys.
Figures computed from the public OpenFlights datasetData source: OpenFlights routes.dat
Seoul is the capital of South Korea, and one of its largest cities.
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Korean Air hub airports
Airports ranked by the number of Korean Air routes originating from each IATA code. A higher count indicates a stronger hub — more nonstop destinations available from that airport.
Routes operated by KE
Showing the 50 longest Korean Air routes parsed from the OpenFlights routes dataset. Click any route for live fare comparison.
KE route network
Every figure below is computed live from the OpenFlights routes dataset at the time of page render. No prices, no fabricated carrier names — only the airline codes stored verbatim in thedirectCarriersJSON field on each FlightRoute row.
All countries served by KE
Ranked by the number of Korean Air routes arriving in each destination country. The leading market is where the airline concentrates most of its international capacity.
About flying with Korean Air
Korean Air (KE) operates 292 scheduled flight routes parsed from the OpenFlights public routes dataset.
From its primary hub at ICN (Seoul, South Korea) the airline flies 93 nonstop routes, with 4 additional airports serving as regional connection points across the network.
The longest nonstop route operated by Korean Air is Atlanta (ATL) to Seoul (ICN), covering 7,138 great-circle miles and averaging about 45m of flight time. Its shortest scheduled route — Cheju (CJU) to Yeosu (RSU) — covers just 112 miles.
Across the full network, Korean Air serves 46 countrys; the most-served destination market is South Korea with 152 inbound routes.
How to find the best Korean Air fares
Booking out of ICN is usually the strongest fare play: Korean Air concentrates 93 of its routess from Seoul, and higher route density at a hub means more head-to-head competition — both from other Korean Air departures and from rival carriers serving overlapping city pairs. Use the Kayak search box above with origin set to ICN to see the airline's full departure board at a glance.
All route, hub, destination and country figures are computed directly from the OpenFlights public-domain routes dataset(openflights.org/data.php)— specifically the directCarriers JSON field on every FlightRoute row, where each airline code (e.g. KE) is parsed from the OpenFlightsroutes.dat airline identifier column. Carrier names come from the companion OpenFlights airlines.dat dataset. No prices or fare estimates appear on this page — those values fluctuate continuously across 100+ booking sites and are fetched live via Kayak at search time.