Parking aircrafts?
KAL created it's own problems because of it's irrational competition with Asiana. They rush to open up new routes, tickets procured from outside Korea are dirt cheap leaving very little net yields despite full loads. Transit passengers are aplenty at Incheon, travel cheaply transiting ICN benefitting Hyatt Regency which of course has Hyatt management tied to the Chairman. Go figure. The parent company holds a small, albeit controlling share in KAL but reaps big rewards from supplies, peripherals, hotac etc. KAL has just announced big losses due to fuel costs and Won depreciation.......the employees can no longer enjoy big windfalls but those companies supplying products and services to it make it big. Surprise? Modus operandi cum laude!
Now to those recent failures, there are many reasons. The LCPs/LIPs are now really much better than the ones I had almost a decade ago. However as someone mentioned the expat candidates nowadays are also suspect. Most are influenced by easy talk in Hyatt crew lounge and lulled by well meaning and not so well meaning KAL expats into thinking that the Korean trainers/checkers are bozos who they can run rings around! The truth is they ARE NOT, a few odd ones maybe but most of them know their stuff but are quite inscrutable. They may have problems articulating their command of things but they are certainly not outright stupid as people make them out to be. So they may look like hilly billies, but they can see through the faking riff raffs.