The City Air Logistics & Transportation (CALT), formerly known as 'Korea City Airport Terminal Co., Ltd.' (), is a 1985 established South Korean
airport bus
An airport bus, or airport shuttle bus, alternatively simply airport shuttle or shuttle bus is a bus designed for transport of passengers to and from, or within airports. These vehicles will usually be equipped with larger luggage space, and i ...
company headquartered in
COEX,
Gangnam District
Gangnam District (; ) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea. The term ''Gangnam'' translates to "South of the Han River". Gangnam District is the third largest district in Seoul, with an area of . As of the 2024 census, Gangna ...
of
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
.
CALT launched its business in 1990 pursuing synergy between
airport bus
An airport bus, or airport shuttle bus, alternatively simply airport shuttle or shuttle bus is a bus designed for transport of passengers to and from, or within airports. These vehicles will usually be equipped with larger luggage space, and i ...
line and city airport terminal, yet the latter operation got permanently closed in February 2023. Though the CALT was the first company in South Korea running the 'city airport terminal', a
Korean-styled English neologism for concept of in-town
airline check-in services, it could not survive competition against rising mobile check-in services via smartphone.
In the last two years, even after South Korea went out from COVID-19 epidemic, the company suffered loss of deficit around 4 billion Korean Won every year, so had to permanently close the in-town airline check-in service at
COEX in year 2023. The company is now just a company running bus lines around airports in Seoul. From then, the only available
in-town check-in service is provided in
Seoul Station City Airport Terminal at
Seoul Station
Seoul Station () is a major railway station in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The station is served by the Korail Intercity Lines and the commuter trains of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway.
Services
KTX
Seoul Station is the terminus of m ...
.
See also
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Seoul Station City Airport Terminal
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Gwangmyeong Station
Gwangmyeong station () is a train station in Gwangmyeong, South Korea. The station was newly built as a stop of national railway operator Korail's KTX high-speed service, south of Seoul Station.
The area surrounding the station is home to t ...
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Airport bus services
Bus companies of South Korea
Logistics companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 1985
Companies based in Seoul
World Trade Center Seoul
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