AirportsSan Francisco

San Francisco to Seoul

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈSFOπŸ‡°πŸ‡·ICNSan Francisco International Airport to Incheon International AirportUnited States to South Korea
Distance
9,085 km
5,645 miles
Frequency
45 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
5
Korean Air, Air Incheon, United Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
33 min
82 departures

The route

Great circle, 9,085 km
SFOICN9,085 km
9,085 km (5,645 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from San Francisco International Airport on this route are typically 33 minutes late (likely 25 to 40), across 82 departures we tracked between 2026-03-13 and 2026-08-04.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

5 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

2 of 9 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
UA 805United Airlines23:55B78934
KE 214Korean Air04:00B74827

Departure times are local to San Francisco International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured