The City Air Logistics & Transportation (CALT), formerly known as 'Korea City Airport Terminal Co., Ltd.' (Korean: 한국도심공항 주식회사), is a 1985 established South Korean airport bus company headquartered in COEX, Gangnam District of Seoul.
CALT launched its business in 1990 pursuing synergy between airport bus line and city airport terminal, yet the latter operation got permanently closed in February 2023. Though the CALT was the first company in South Korea running the 'city airport terminal', a Korean-styled English neologism for concept of in-town airline check-in services, it could not survive competition against rising mobile check-in services via smartphone.[1]
In the last two years, even after South Korea went out from COVID-19 epidemic, the company suffered loss of deficit around 4 billion Korean Won every year, so had to permanently close the in-town airline check-in service at COEX in year 2023. The company is now just a company running bus lines around airports in Seoul. From then, the only available in-town check-in service is provided in Seoul Station City Airport Terminal at Seoul Station.[2]
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edit- ^ 장, 수현 (2023-02-07). "홀가분하게 공항 가던 시절 그리워" … 파리 날리는 강남 도심공항터미널 ["I miss the days when going airport was a easy thing" … Gangnam City Airport Terminal has flies fly around]. Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Seoul. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ 강, 다은 (2023-02-02). 강남 도심공항터미널, 33년 만에 결국 폐쇄 [Gangnam City Airport Terminal permanently closes its business after 33 years]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Seoul. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
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