As the Korean government lifted the duty to perform the first-day PCR test on the first day of entry, all entry-related COVID-19 testing measures were eliminated after two years and nine months, and as the dollar strengthened, the demand for travel to Korea by Koreans surged. are doing as a result, air ticket prices are on the rise.<\/p>\n
According to the Korean Air website on the 18th, the price of a round-trip ticket from Washington to Korea until November, which is the off-season, was over $2,600, and the airfare for December had already exceeded $3,000.<\/p>\n
Economy class tickets departing from Washington on December 16th are already sold out, and if you depart on December 19th and return on January 7th next year, the economy class airfare will be $3,300, up about 25% from the $2,500 level before Corona 19. During the same period, Prestige seats are being sold for around $12,000 round-trip. If you use a foreign flag to make one stopover, it will cost $2,622 for a departure from Washington on December 12 and an arrival on January 7, next year.<\/p>\n
Shin Seung-cheol, CEO of Top Travel Agency, said, \u201cThe removal of PCR tests and the high exchange rate are attracting many people who have been delaying their visit to Korea.<\/p>\n
However, while the number of Koreans in Washington area who are thinking about going to Korea has increased ahead of the peak season for winter vacation in December, they are hesitant because of the skyrocketing airfare.<\/p>\n
K, who lives in Centerville, Virginia, said, \u201cI am raising children, so I can only go to Korea during vacation, but there is no sign that the airfare is going to drop.\u201d He said, “I don’t know why airfare is only continuing to rise, even though airfare has become expensive, and now it operates every day, and gas prices have come down, and the dollar is strong.”<\/p>\n
An official of the national airline said, \u201cThe recovery of all routes to the Americas, including the Washington route, is only 70% of the previous level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"