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Air Koryo flight attendants featured on 2017 calendar 2016/12/29 13:32 SHENYANG, China, Dec. 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has featured a flight crew of its flag carrier Air Koryo in a 2017 calendar of the communist country, obtained Thursday by Yonhap News Agency, in what is seen as an unprecedented move to revitalize its tourism industry amid international sanctions imposed over its nuclear and missile developments. The calendar published by the state-run the Korea Publications Export and Import Corp. has the cover showing the airline's two pilots and five flight attendants. The cover of a North Korean calendar for 2017,...

North Korea's national carrier Air Koryo, which has the lowest airline rating on Skytrax, has discovered the Internet. The state-owned company -- regarded by some as the "world's worst airline" -- recently launched a bilingual website (www.airkoryo.com.kp) to provide travelers with "easier, quicker, reliable booking and ticketing services," according to Air Koryo. Air Koryo's new ticket booking system reinforces the company's less-than-brilliant reputation. After multiple trials to book a one-way ticket from Shengyang to Pyongyang, we failed to secure any reservation. Instead, we ended up with this message day after day: “We cannot find any flights for your flight schedule....

SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- Air Koryo, North Korea's air carrier, has been banned from offering flight services to Europe for a fifth year after having failed to meet international safety requirements, U.S. international broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA) said Saturday. The North Korean carrier has been involved in the list of carriers prohibiting from flying to the 27 members of European Union that was released this year, RFA said.

God Bless those enterprising, digging Japanese journalists and their film crews.A hot one in North Korean black weapons smuggling case was captured for all of Japan to see last night at the 11 p.m. TV news on NNN Network.The pushy and curious Japanese journalists and cameramen with their long lenses (and fluent Farsi and Korean speaking investing staff in Tokyo), discovered some VERY interesting things about the North Korean aircraft stopped this week in Thailand with Ukranian crew flying weapons in violation of US sanctions. The flight crew has been very tight lipped, but the Japanese journalists nevertheless caught some...

BRUSSELS - The European Union banned on Wednesday 92 airlines from operating in the 25-nation bloc, targeting mostly African carriers as it tries to boost air security and reassure travelers that European skies are safe. The executive European Commission approved the blacklist, which includes some 50 airlines from the Democratic Republic of Congo , 13 from Sierra Leone, 11 from Equatorial Guinea, six from Swaziland and three from Liberia. Thailand‘s Phuket Airlines was also on the list as were carriers from Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and North Korea . "The European Union now has a coherent approach to banning airlines," Transport Commissioner...