The new eight-hour Boeing 777 flight comes after Nordwind Airlines' dozens of routes to Europe and Asia were cut due to the ...

Smith noted that Air Koryo's fleet is mainly Russian TU-204s and AN-148s, which may not be as comfortable or efficient as their American or European-built counterparts, but are not unsound.

The inaugural direct flight between Moscow and Pyongyang since the Soviet era successfully landed in North Korea on Monday ...

The inaugural flight, operated by Russia’s Nordwind Airlines on a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, departed Moscow's Sheremetyevo ...

Russia’s first direct flight from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea, took off Sunday evening, in a sign of deepening ties with ...

An Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing early on Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, as North Korea cracks open its border to some ...

Smith noted that Air Koryo’s fleet is mainly Russian TU-204s and AN-148s, which may not be as comfortable or efficient as their American or European-built counterparts, but are not unsound.

Air Koryo’s travel agent liasion in charge of issuing tickets to the Americas, Uri Tours, works with North Korean Air Koryo employees on the ground in their Beijing offices and in Pyongyang.

“The Air Koryo burger was the worst example of soft power I’ve ever tasted,” Beijing-based writer Alec Ash told the LA Times.

Smith noted that Air Koryo's fleet is mainly Russian TU-204s and AN-148s, which may not be as comfortable or efficient as their American or European-built counterparts, but are not unsound.

This is an Air Koryo Ilyushin Il-62 P-885, a version of the Il-62 that was originally designed in the 1960's. II-62's have had 10 accidents since 1989, though only two were fatal ...

But Air Koryo may not be that bad, according to online reviews. The ranking, based on 13.25 million survey questionnaires compiled by Skytrax, an air-transport research company based in Britain ...