bobbybrown

Yet another night <-> daytime schedule shuffle is here. SFO-ICN is becoming a night flight from late Oct. 2017.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/...rvice-changes/
Now:
ICN1645 – 1045SFO
SFO1240 – 1725+1ICN
Soon:
OZ212 ICN2040 – 1400SFO 359 D
OZ211 SFO2330 – 0530+2ICN 359 D

Asiana moved ORD to daytime from 2011 and after 4 years of an experiment, went back to the night in 2015. SFO used to be a nighttime flight until 2005 or so and now going back. Redeye isn't attractive for o&d but it offers tons of connection opportunities at ICN. Current schedule works better only to deep southeast Asia such as BKK, SIN, DEL and a few.

I hope this means a stronger relationship with UA by offering distinctive schedule choices to the passengers. And I hope OZ moves to concourse G at SFO as 2330 isn't busy at there.

CalRef

Has there been any speculation that OZ will change or eliminate the daytime flight out of LAX? Hopefully, no, as they already have the night flight but I would appreciate any rumors out there as we are on the daytime flight in early December.

bobbybrown

That won't happen. OZ has been operating two daily LAX flights for more than a decade.

Kacee

The new timing is just terrible for BKK-USA connections . . . from an already too-long 6-8 hour layover to a 12+ hour layover.

bobbybrown

Current schedule is at least good for one direction (SFO to BKK) but after the change, both directions are terrible. But new schedule connects so much better to many cities in China and Japan, and that must benefit more to Asiana.

1353513636

I'd imagine China and Japan especially are more profitable for Asiana than Vietnam/Thailand, which have been under assault by Chinese airlines for years now.

bobbybrown

In fact, Vietnam is well covered with the new schedule. And most non-daily Japanese routes are now operated by Air Seoul. Chinese routes might see increased transfer passengers which is desperately needed because of current political tension and diminished tourists.

zeer0

Asiana is going to be parking their plane for that long at SFO??? Might there be more to the story?

sfo3388

Is night time departure from SFO for winter only?

Buster CT1K

I greatly prefer daytime flights from USA to ICN. The nighttime flights throw my body clock off way too much.

bobbybrown

Parking. Like Asiana already does in LAX.

No, summer 2018 also shows night schedule.

As a Y class traveler, and who sleeps at 10, I agree.

N1120A

Not only has OZ had 2x daily at LAX for years, they advertise them heavily

Mendobrew

F.Y.I.
OZ 203 (LAX-ICN) will move from 00:15 to 23:00 starting in early fall.

stupidhead

I'm not surprised. Wondering why they didn't do this sooner...

Late afternoons at ICN are a mess.

Just as an aside, wouldn't it help utilization and/or connections though if they left a couple of hours later out of ICN, say around 11PM? Plus less time sitting around at SFO.

1353513636

Anyone know what the lounge situation will be like at SFO? Since CI will be using their lounge for their own flight I don't think they'll continue to let OZ use it. Also, in the summer, the flight arrives to ICN at 0345 while the OZ Lounge at ICN doesn't open until 0500; are they planning to open earlier?