The number of flights on South Korea's international routes are likely to nearly reach pre-COVID 19 pandemic levels during this peak summer season, the transport ministry said Thursday. The number of flights on 231 routes between domestic airports and overseas ones is expected to recover to 98 percent, or 4,528 per week, of the pre-pandemic level during the March 31-Oct. 26 peak season, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The corresponding figure in the same period of 2019 stood at 4,619 on the international routes, it said. The country's international flights remained at below 50 percent of the pre-pandemic levels in the peak summer period of 2022 but sharply rebounded to 83 percent in the same period of the following year, a ministry official said. Source: Yonhap News Agency