The company confirmed that it was true that on that day a situation occurred where CORTIS members boarded the plane late. The reason given was "traffic jams due to accidents on the road, causing delays in movement".
The company apologizes to passengers traveling on the same trip as CORTIS for causing inconvenience.
Previously, on many online forums, posts appeared claiming that the flight was delayed due to CORTIS members arriving at the airport late. According to the poster, the flight was delayed by nearly 40 minutes.
In addition to this incident, there are also allegations that the group repeatedly boarded planes late on other flights.
In addition, CORTIS is involved in many controversies related to the use of the airport, such as allegations of blocking passenger travel at the canoe bridge leading to the plane, and even changing clothes right at the canoe bridge.
A series of accusations have caused CORTIS to be criticized by a part of the audience as "star disease", or "abusing power" at the airport.
However, BigHit Music denied these accusations. According to the company, the video recording CORTIS appearing at the tube bridge actually happened in October last year, when the group returned to Korea after a schedule in Japan.
The company affirmed that CORTIS was the last person to leave the plane and was rearranging personal belongings after all passengers had disembarked.
Regarding information that CORTIS also boarded late on a flight to Japan for a performance in May, the company explained that the members boarded the plane very early, long before the boarding gate closed, and did not arrive late at all.
A media outlet also clarified the incident on June 26. In a post accusing CORTIS of delaying the flight, the accuser said that the flight was scheduled to take off at 2:40 pm, but CORTIS only boarded at 2:45 pm, causing the plane to take off at 3:18 pm.
However, according to media verification, this is incorrect information. According to flight data recorded that day, the departure time was 3:01 PM. In the aviation industry, "departure time" is calculated from the time the plane leaves the gate, not when it takes off the runway. It seems that the poster mistook departure time and take-off time.
A person in the aviation industry said: "The time the plane takes off also depends on the runway condition of the airport, so it is not much related to the time passengers board the plane.
In fact, in the last 10 days, this flight's departure time has fluctuated from 14:42 (June 22) to 15:16 (June 29). Although the airline announced the departure time is 14:40, for long-haul international flights, the backup time is usually calculated quite broadly.
More importantly, the arrival time. The flight that CORTIS took arrived only 1 minute later than scheduled. In the last 10 days, only 2 flights arrived earlier than the expected time of 9:35 am.
According to verification, if waiting for passengers does not affect the arrival time, airlines usually still wait for passengers to board the plane, not only celebrities are treated like that.
It is true that CORTIS arrived at the airport late that day due to traffic jams due to a traffic accident. However, this situation was notified to the airline in advance.
