Promoting the “Overseas Travel If Corona Eumseong” travel bubble

Government announces support plan to recover aviation demand
Use of non-landing sightseeing flights from local airports
Currently, the’non-landing tourist flight’, which can only depart from Incheon Airport, will be available at local airports. It is intended to support the aviation industry that has been hit hard by Corona 19.

On the 3rd, the government announced a support plan for recovering aviation demand and strengthening the competitiveness of the aviation industry through “measures for overcoming the aviation industry corona crisis and making a leap forward”.

According to this plan, the government will promote the’travel bubble’ within this year. Travel bubble refers to the lifting of the mutual prohibition on entry and easing of quarantine measures with no restrictions on the purpose of visit, on the premise of a corona 19 voice confirmation. The government is planning to select a restoration route first in consideration of air demand and the level of quarantine in the other country.

In order to expand aviation demand, non-landing tourism flights will also be diversified. Currently, it is possible to depart from Incheon Airport only, but in the future, it is planned to be able to operate non-landing tourist flights at local airports. The modes of operation of international tourism flights also diversify. Currently, only the’outbound’ form of flying over foreign air from Korean airports and returning is possible. In the future, it will also introduce an’inbound’ form that departs from a foreign airport and flies over Korea. It is being reviewed as a form of tourism in which you do not enter Korea after landing at a domestic airport, but only use duty-free shopping and return. It is also expected to promote international sightseeing flights that allow only the area around the airport to be explored after permitting entry into the country. In addition, it will review whether to extend or resume the reduction of aircraft acquisition tax and property tax, and begin to extend the period of special employment support industries and improve the employment maintenance subsidy system to stabilize employment in the aviation industry. The reduction of airport facility usage fees will be extended until June of this year, and the license for cargo-loading items will be converted to a post-report system.

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