Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) will reduce the frequency of services to London Heathrow as of October 27, 2019, from the current daily flights to 5x weekly. The Korean carrier has leased its slots at the British gateway to Kuwait Airways (KU, Kuwait).
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, Asiana Airlines will continue to serve Heathrow with A350-900 equipment.
The Korean carrier executed a slot swap with Kuwait Airways at the end of July 2019, according to a request filed with airport coordinator ACL International. In return for the Monday and Wednesday evening slot pairs currently used by Asiana, the carrier received two slot pairs for the same day but for a later hour from the Kuwaiti carrier.
Kuwait Airways' flights KU105/106, operated 2x weekly and using the slots due to be transferred to Asiana, will end accordingly on October 23. The airline has yet to announce a new service using the two newly-leased slots.
Kuwait Airways currently serves Heathrow 11x weekly using B777-300(ER) equipment.
