With a flight duration of 14 hours and 42 minutes, Korean Air operated the longest flight since it was founded in 12 on June 2021, 1969. So far, Korean Air's longest flight was the Incheon-Atlanta route with 12.547 kilometers and a flight time of 13 hours and 50 minutes.

After a flight distance of 13.405 kilometers and a duration of 14 hours and 42 minutes, the cargo flight KE8047, which left Incheon on June 12 at 21:14 pm, arrived in Miami (USA). The Boeing 777-300ER, converted into a cargo plane, had loaded 25 tons of COVID-19 diagnostic kits for the Dominican Republic on the flight from Incheon to Miami.

Korean Air regularly flies six times a week to Miami, the hub for South American routes. Usually the cargo planes stop over in Anchorage to refuel and swap crew members.