But once Korean Air figured out that their problem was cultural, they fixed it.
Korean Air signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus on Wednesday to acquire up to eight A380s.
Korean Air and VIP customers have joined launch customer Lufthansa in ordering a total of 33 747-8 Intercontinentals.
Hynes says Gale is in discussions with Boeing and Microsoft , as well as Samsung Life, Shinhan Bank and Korean Air, among others.
In Korea, investigators from the Fair Trade Commission raided offices of Korean Air and Asiana, the country's two largest airlines.
With the latest warning, South Korean air carriers Korean Air and Asiana Airlines have added detours to about 14 daily flights.
South Korea's largest airline, Korean Air, and several major hotels in Seoul, tell CNN there has been no noticeable dip in bookings.
As South Koreans stop flying abroad, Korean Air is trying to drum up more business from America by luring expatriate flyers home.
All this suggests that Korean Air is not about to go bankrupt.
Korean Air had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s.
Korean Air Lines fell 0.8% after a bomb threat forced one of its aircraft to make an emergency landing in Canada on Wednesday.
In fact, Korean Air's debt, large as it is, is actually better protected from the falling won than that of many of its peers.
Even so, firms such as Korean Air, which is thought to be one of the most vulnerable, earn most of their money in their home country.
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Korean Air's Morning Calm members need to fly 50, 000 miles to become SkyTeam Elite members, while their Delta brethren earn the same privileges with just 30, 000.
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Among other things, he planned the mid-air bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 in November 1987, which resulted in the death of all 115 on board.
Suddenly the pastoral quiet is pierced by the deafening whine of a Korean Air 747, 100 yards away, coming in for a landing at JFK International Airport.
To ease the strain, Hanjin (owned by the same group that is struggling to manage Korean Air) has sold much of its fleet and leased it back.
Korean Air, the world's largest cargo carrier in 2004, said it did not know the reason for the raid but said it would co-operate with the authorities.
Korean Air's main domestic rival, Asiana, is in dreadful shape.
Korean Air Lines is making its first attempt to invest in a passenger carrier with its bid for 44% of Czech Airlines, which could expand its routes in Europe.
Korean Air gets around that by designating the entire upper deck (94 seats) as business class, plus 12 first class suites and 301 economy class seats on the lower deck.
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"We have not seen any impact from the news from North Korea thus far, but we'll have to see about any further impact, " a Korean Air public relations representative told CNN.
Penny Pfaelzer, a spokeswoman for Korean Air, said the airline received a bomb threat at its Los Angeles call center concerning Flight KE072, which was carrying 134 passengers, a Canadian pilot and 12 crew members.
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Korean Air is not the only South Korean firm with excessive borrowing: the top 30 chaebol have around five times as much debt as equity, and the five conglomerates that went bust this year all had debt-to-equity ratios of more than 400%.
Korea has also been wooing mainlanders by granting visas upon arrival at Kimpo Airport, increasing Korean Air and Asiana flights to Seoul and Cheju Island and by assigning 35 travel agencies to cater to Chinese tourists, 210, 000 of whom are anticipated this year.
The airport is the hub for Korean Air, which has a new fleet of Airbus A380s, true lie-flat business class seats and a provocative global advertising campaign all of which are giving Asian service standard bearers like Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific a run for their money.
Defense officials acknowledged that North Korean military officers are particularly agitated by bomber flights because of memories of the destruction wrought from the air during the Korean War.
Following 78 Korean missions with 121 hours in the air, Neil received the Air Medal for 20 combat missions, a gold Star for another 20, and the Korean Service Medal.
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