RCP Engineering D-01-200, Korean Air livery.

About Korean air

Korean Air Lines Co, operating as Korean Air, is the flag carrier of South Korea and its largest airline based on fleet size, international destinations, and international flights.

The present-day Korean Air was established on 1 March 1969, after the Hanjin Group acquired government-owned Korean Air Lines, which had operated since June 1962. Korean Air is a founding member of the airline alliance SkyTeam and SkyTeam Cargo. It is one of the 10 airlines ranked 5-star airline, and the top 20 airlines in the world in terms of passengers carried and is also one of the top-ranked international cargo airlines.

Lore

Korean Air, which has seen Asiana's successful RCP made planes operation since 1989, ordered 15 RCP D-01-200s in 1992 to replace the aging & the bankrupted McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Fokker 100.

The D-01 has been used for short-distance international and domestic flights at Korean air, and has been loved for a long time and even ordering additional follow-up RCP models from Korean Air due to its high utilization rate and reliability.

Domestic flight :
Gimpo - Gimhae
Gimpo - Jeju
Gimpo - Ulsan
Gimpo - Gwangju
Gimhae - Jeju
Gimhae - Ulsan
Gwangju - Jeju
Cheongju - Jeju
Daegu - Gimpo
Daegu - Jeju
Gimpo - Yeosu
Gimpo - Sacheon
Gimpo - Pohang

International flight :
Gimpo - Narita
Gimpo - Kansai
Gimpo - Haneda
Incheon - Sendai
Incheon - Naha
Incheon - Nanjing
Incheon - Shanghai
Incheon - Beijing
Incheon - Xiamen
Incheon - Taipei

What is "Visit Korea '94"?

The Korea Tourism Organization produced mascots and emblems for the first campaign to visit Korea. In particular, mascots using colorful garments, Taekwondo motifs, and lanterns lanterns were examples of Korean motifs compressed in the 1994.

Historical Reference

Korean Air painted the mascot of the event small on the side of the aircraft and wrote VISIT KOREA '94, at Boeing 747-300 HL7430, Boeing 747SP-B5 HL7457, McDonnell Douglas MD-11 HL7375, McDonnell Douglas MD-82 HL7272. This livery is based on the MD-82, and used the aircraft number HL7272.

The VISIT KOREA '94 livery was third special livery used by Korean Air, first was I LOVE NEW YORK livery and second was 1988 Seoul Olympics livery.