Air Koryo Schedules
Only original sources are physical schedules and the Air Koryo website (wayback machine for old airline website domain). Wikipedia has a decent list of destinations.
Fleet ? And history on YP tours, this is also visible on wikipedia. Official history, most flights cancelled due to later sanctions.
International routes only:
^ based on the same website there is also service to Macao that operated in 2019, and extra flights added later that year.
Current Domestic routes:
Orang/Chongjin to Pyongyang schedule in Routes Online, corroborated by the Air Koryo page from the same time.
1 hour each way.
Wonsan to Pyongyang schedule said to be 40 minutes each way
Samjiyon article listing trip times 80 minutes each way, different page with trip times, 90 minutes each way.
* It seems to me given all this information that the Chongjin flight is the only sustainable flight on the current operating model and political/economic situation. Wonsan and Samjiyon seem to be geared towards tourists.
Past Domestic routes
Pyongyang-Hamhung-Hyesan and Pyongyang-Hamhung-Chongjin (listed in the company history beginning july 1980 and march 1957 respectively and continuing for unknown period of time, later Pyongyang-Hamhung was trialed but cancelled in 2015)
Pyongyang-Hyesan (listed in company history beginning march 1970, continued for unknown time.)
List of airports by importance:
Pyongyang Sunan (international)
Orang Airport (domestic)
Samjiyon airport (domestic)
Kalma airport (domestic)
Sondok Airport (domestic, now it is only chartered flights after a 6 month service trial)
Uiju airport (chartered)
Hyangsang helipad (chartered)
Hyesan airfield (cancelled flights, gravel runway)
+ Wikipedia also lists Haeju and Sinuiju airports, presumably charters.
Takeways:
The biggest schedule changes seem to happen in March and October of every year. The international schedules are all a round trip starting and ending in Pyongyang, on different days of the week, and the few times they occur on the same day, they are not timed to meet each other. This means for international flights, it is almost impossible to take a connecting flight through Pyongyang (which is how other airlines operate and try to win extra passengers), but clearly many people wouldn't want this anyway.
It is unclear if there are regular domestic schedules, some people assert that there aren't and that most domestic flights are chartered. But this is not proven. From a ticket cost perspective, the road and especially railroad alternatives seem especially popular, with railroad owning a characteristically high percentage for eastern block influenced countries. The ticket cost for Orang to Pyongyang was listed as 90 USD, or on this website 140 euros one way and 200 two way.
Since international flights are the main passenger service operated by Air Koryo, it seems that rearranging the schedules so that passengers can connect between flights may be a way to support higher usage. There are of course some difficulties negotiating schedules in big congested airports, but the current schedule does not look like there is any attempt to time connections. Finally, an effort should be made to time connections between international and domestic flights (starting with Orang, since according to the tour manager of YPT, it is the busiest domestic flight by far). If this is done, then it is possible that other domestic flights can be supported, and a domestic network of planes pulsing on Pyongyang can support domestic aviation and infrastructure. This would become a reliable (pending military regarding airspace and congestion at international airports), fast, yet admittedly expensive way of traveling. For domestic passengers it may be good to assure connecting airport buses between the airport of a city and the city itself when it is far enough away (like Orang, sondok, etc) and the surrounding transportation is not well developed.
One of the main things that would need to happen is storing planes overnight in airports other than Pyongyang, already done in Shenyang in this schedule. This way, big picture, planes converge on pyongyang in the morning and wait while passengers connect between flights, then the same planes (or swapped out planes) fly back to the other airports and wait overnight. If the airline is comfortable with this, most planes do not need maintenance outside pyongyang, they can be swapped out during midday when they arrive in Pyongyang. If they breakdown elsewhere, it is no different than if planes breakdown elsewhere in the current arrangement.
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