{"id":3434,"date":"2021-02-03T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2021-02-03T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:46:39","slug":"akara-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/akara-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the AKARA Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Some big improvements are on the way for the AKARA Corridor \u2013 a piece of airspace 100nm off the coast of Shanghai that connects <b>China<\/b> and <b>Japan<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In effect the airspace is being simplified. Currently, South Korea&#8217;s Incheon ACC controls North\/South routes, while Japan&#8217;s Fukuoka ACC controls East\/West. The two operate on different frequencies \u2013 <strong>a cause for concern for emergency descents<\/strong> while heavy aircraft out of ZPSD\/Shanghai are often penalised with inefficient levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3439\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image-676x462.jpg 676w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BLOG-AKARA-image.jpg 1497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This area has always been unusual in that more than one center has had responsibility for controlling aircraft at different waypoints.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0on 11 Jan, 2021, ATC authorities in Japan, China and South Korea agreed to implement\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/koreabizwire.com\/s-korea-reaches-air-traffic-deal-with-china-and-japan\/179113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposal from ICAO<\/a>\u00a0regarding ATC management in this area \u2013<strong>\u00a0so<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>from 25 March 2021, South Korea will control all flights in this area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There will also be a new East\/West route in addition to airway A593 to further improve efficiency. You can read all about the changes in more detail <a href=\"https:\/\/airlines.iata.org\/analysis\/bringing-safety-and-efficiency-to-the-akara-corridor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some big improvements are on the way for the AKARA Corridor \u2013 a piece of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":11427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,876],"tags":[1706,1708,1707,1216],"class_list":{"0":"post-3434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-safe-airspace","9":"tag-akara","10":"tag-fukuoka","11":"tag-incheon","12":"tag-shanghai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}