AirportsSeoul

Seoul to San Francisco

πŸ‡°πŸ‡·ICNπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈSFOIncheon International Airport to San Francisco International AirportSouth Korea to United States
Distance
9,085 km
5,645 miles
Frequency
33 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
5
United Airlines, YP, Korean Air, codeshares included
Typical delay
18 min
86 departures

The route

Great circle, 9,085 km
ICNSFO9,085 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 Incheon International Airport on this route are typically 18 minutes late (likely 13 to 20), across 86 departures we tracked between 2026-03-22 and 2026-07-29.

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

3 of 7 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
KE 23Korean Air16:00B78X35
UA 892United Airlines16:50not seen yet28
YP 111YP19:15not seen yet16

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured