The jeans-wearing genies have taken off. And landed.

We're talking about the new Korean low cost carrier Jin Air. Last week it made its maiden flight and now the Jin Air genies, as the FAs are called, are in full swing.

The first flight flew from Seoul's Gimpo airport down to honeymoon paradise, Jeju Island. Busan is on the route list too and in the second half of next year Jin Air will add international destinations in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Word on the genies' magic carpet route is still to come.

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Flying around South Korea is about to get cheaper and a whole lot cooler, after the weekend's announcement that Jin Air will be the promised budget offshoot of Korean Air. Flights start on July 17, and major routes will include flights from Seoul to the southwest city of Busan, and on to the holiday capital of Jeju Island.

The powers that be were going to call the new airline Air Korea but they must've had a marketing consultant in, because they have a ton of good reasons for going with Jin Air instead. One: Jin can mean "truth" and "sincerity"--nice qualities for an airline. Two: Jin also means jeans, and that's what the flight staff will be wearing, plus T-shirt. Very hip.

And three: By extension, the airline's already calling the crew jini because it makes them sound like magical genies who can do everything.

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· Korean Air's Budget Arm Named Jin Air [Korea Times]
· Korean Air Gets Busy [Jaunted]
· South Korea Travel Guide [Jaunted]

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