SEOUL - Korean Airlines has officially received the A380's from Airbus Factories on May 1st, and will begin service in the A380 on June 1st. To introduce the A380's into Korean Air Virtual's fleet, A380 service will begin on May 1st, and will be available to ALL pilots, regardless of rank, for the first two weeks of 5/1/2011 until 5/15/2011. After that time period, only Senior Captains will be able to fly this aircraft.

The A380 will first fly between Seoul Incheon International Airport and Tokyo Narita Airport in the morning. In the afternoon, it will then fly between Seoul Incheon International Airport and Hong Kong International Airport.

Fight KE703 will depart Seoul at 1010 and arrive at Tokyo at 1230. The return flight, KE704, will leave at 1355 and arrive at 1620. From June 2 onwards, flights KE701 and KE702, leaving an hour earlier, will take over from KE703 and KE704 respectively.

Between Seoul and Hong Kong, flight KE607 will depart daily at 2000 and arrive at 2230. The return flight, KE608, leaves at 0050 and arrives at 0520. A B777-300 will operate the outbound service on Mondays and the return flight on Tuesdays.

The carrier will systematically deploy the superjumbo plane on more routes: between Seoul and Bangkok in July, between Seoul and New York in August and between Seoul and Los Angeles in October.

Korean Air Virtual has been open for just over one week and we have seen tremendous progress. We have received a tremendous amount of praise from the Flight Simulator community. We are very excited that we can give the community the opportunity to fly all of Korean Air's real world routes at such a great virtual airline.

Be sure to check us out today at http://www.koreanva.org