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In an interesting turn of events, a cabin chief at Korean Air denied a captain access to alcohol during the flight. However, after reporting the incident, the cabin chief received a punishment in the form of a demotion. Here is the story. The events Multiple events transpired before Korean Air disciplined the cabin chief. This story, as reported by One Mile At A Time, is shocking since there seems to be a legitimate concern of passenger safety. The events started while on the ground. Pre-departure Many airlines serve pre-departure beverages in premium cabins. These are usually options such as juice,...

SEOUL (AFP) - Korean Air on Wednesday (Dec 19) was ordered to pay 20 million won (S$24,300) to a flight attendant who was kicked off an airplane by the firm's heiress in 2014 in a now infamous "nut rage" episode. The incident, where heiress Cho Hyun-ah angrily ejected the chief of the cabin crew from a taxiing airplane after being served macadamia nuts in a bag instead of a bowl, made global headlines. The worker, Park Chang-jin, earlier sued Korean Air claiming that the firm - the South's flag carrier - unfairly demoted him to an ordinary cabin crew position...

When Richard Marx boarded a flight from Vietnam to South Korea with his wife Daisy Fuentes today, he had no idea he’d be called upon help keep the airplane safe from a deranged passenger. Fuentes posted photos of Marx helping subdue a passenger who had grown agitated and begun attacking the flight crew. The collage showed Marx working with crew to help keep the passenger in his seat. His help appeared to be necessary because, as Fuentes reported, the crew wasn’t properly trained to handle the incident. “On our flight from Hanoi to Seoul a guy sitting in the next...

On December 30, an arrest warrant was issued against Heather Cho and Korean Air cabin director Mr. Yeo for attempting to obstruct evidence regarding the "nut rage" incident which occurred on December 5. On December 5, Heather Cho made headlines when it was reported that, as Korean Air's vice president, she turned a plane around in order to kick out a crew member. The story goes that Cho was served the nuts on a plane going from New York to Seoul (Flight 86) when she didn't ask for them. Currently Cho and Korean Air are being investigated for the December...

Korean Air will be punished with a flight ban or fines after the daughter of its chief executive delayed a flight with a tantrum over being served macadamia nuts she had not asked for. Cho Hyun-Ah, a former senior executive with the carrier, forced the chief cabin crew member off a New York-Seoul flight after she took exception to the snack - and the fact it was served in a bag rather a bowl. The 'nut rage' incident caused a national uproar in South Korea - and triggered sales of macadamia nuts to soar.

Korean Air scion faces probe for bad in-flight behavior By Kim Se-jeong The transportation authority said Monday it is looking into whether a Korean Air senior vice president's behavior on a plane, including yelling at flight attendants and ordering the plane to stop, violated the Aviation Safety Law. The investigation comes after Heather Cho, the airline's senior vice president and the airline group Chairman Cho Yang-ho's eldest daughter, allegedly had an aircraft on the runway proceed back to the gate at JFK International Airport in New York to have a flight attendant thrown off due to "poor service." "Two inspectors...

Korean Air on Tuesday made its first delivery of a rewired U.S. fighter plane from its Busan Tech Center under a $400 million order it won from the U.S. Air Force last September. Under the deal, Korean Air will work on 60 F-15 fighters stationed in the Pacific region by 2016, replacing their tail wings and re-wiring them in line with the U.S. military’s project to improve its combat strength. Korean Air will also carry out maintenance work. The airliner said it replaced some 15,000 Kepton wires used in the F-15 with more elastic Teflon wires and ran tests to...

Korean Air will take delivery Monday of its 18th Boeing 777, which also happens to be the 3,000th widebody jet that Boeing has built at its Everett plant. The plant opened in the late 1960s for production of the 747, and later added the 767, 777 and now the 787. Boeing plans a factory celebration Monday to mark the occasion.

Korean Air has taken the Dreamliner Premiere to new heights. They’ve wrapped their entire headquarters building in Seoul with a giant image of a 787 taking off – in Korean Air blue – along with the words, “787 Dreamliner, Special Expectations.” And that’s no stretch. Korean Air’s headquarters will remain “wrapped” in the 787 Dreamliner through the end of the month. The wrapping project took eight days - with 20 to 30 men working each day, attaching more than 300 pieces of film onto the building’s surface. They tell me that all the pieces lined up together would stretch 2.8...

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's flag carrier Korean Air said Tuesday it will buy 25 aircraft from Boeing Co. for around $5.5 billion, the largest aviation deal in the nation's history. Under the agreement, Boeing will deliver 15 passenger aircraft and 10 freighters to Korean Air Co. — the world's biggest mover of air cargo — over a 10-year period beginning in 2009, the airline said in a statement. Korean Air will purchase 10 long-haul 777-300s and five medium-range 737-900/700 passenger jets, as well as 10 freighters, five 747-8Fs and five 777-200s. It has an option on an additional...

40 Hurt as Plane Runs into Turbulence Some 40 passengers and crewmembers were hurt when a Korean airliner flying from Bali, Indonesia to Incheon International Airport suddenly lost altitude in turbulence.  Korean Air and the Seoul Regional Aviation Administration said Thursday that Korean Air Flight 630, which took off from Bali's Denpasar Airport at 4:15 a.m., ran into "clear air turbulence" while cruising at 38,000 feet just before entering Malaysian airspace. The aircraft suddenly dropped about 100 meters. Four of the 257 passengers sustained injuries like cuts to their foreheads when they hit their heads on the overhead baggage...