North Korea’s flagship carrier has flown its first international flight since the pandemic.
Air Koryo’s JS151 left Pyongyang Tuesday morning and landed at Beijing Capital Airport at 09:16 local time (01:16 GMT), data from real-time flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed.
It is unclear who was on board or how many passengers JS151 was carrying.
Travel agency Koryo Tours said the Pyongyang-Beijing route was reopened as a means for North Koreans to get home.
According to Flightradar24, flight JS151 was flown on a Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft, which can carry up to 210 passengers.
It is unclear how many passengers were on board the return flight, JS152, scheduled to depart for Pyongyang from the Chinese capital at 13:05.
But Kyodo News reported that Air Koryo’s check-in counter at Beijing airport was packed with passengers wearing North Korean flag pins on their chests and pushing trolleys full of baggage.
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