CEO Kim Yi-bae says the airline will reduce winter traffic by between 10-15%, but stresses this is not an admission that it was running too many planes.

More than 150 of passengers have been killed in the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil in decades with only two members of the crew having been confirmed to have survived

A team of U.S. investigators including representatives from Boeing on Tuesday examined the site of a plane crash that killed 179 people in South Korea while authorities were conducting safety inspections on all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines.