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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announces Winter Schedule

Travel News Asia 17 August 2004

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is to adjust capacity to meet changes in market demand with effect from coming 2004/05 winter schedule starting on October 31, 2004. KLM’s capacity this winter, expressed in available seat kilometers (ASKs) will increase by 9% in comparison with last winter. Arrival of three additional Boeing 777-200ER aircraft will contribute towards this capacity increase. This brings the number of these aircraft in operation to a total of 10 for the coming winter season.

Cargo capacity will increase by 11% in comparison with last year’s winter schedule. This is largely due to utilizing the now fully operational third Boeing 747-400ERF.

Harmonization with Air France

This winter, Air France will suspend its flights from Charles de Gaulle to Manila and Jakarta and will book passengers for these destinations on KLM flights. Flight times between the Schiphol and Charles de Gaulle hubs are aligned to connect flights to and from both these hubs.

Europe

This winter, KLM will introduce a third daily flight to Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Flights to Thessalonica will be suspended.

Substituting the Fokker 100 for a Boeing 737 on two of the three daily flights will increase capacity to Toulouse.

North Atlantic

Effective September 15, 2004, KLM will launch a daily roundtrip service to Atlanta. Capacity for this has been released by suspending flights to Miami.

The number of weekly roundtrip flights to Houston will increase from nine to ten as of coming winter schedule.

KLM and Northwest Airlines will be raising frequency to Minneapolis from two to three daily roundtrip flights.

As usual during winter, the daily codeshare roundtrip flights to Detroit operated by Northwest Airlines will decrease from four to three.

In comparison with the current summer schedule, flight frequency to San Francisco will be lowered from seven to six roundtrip flights a week.

Mid-/South Atlantic

Effective December 13, 2004, flight frequency between Amsterdam and Paramaribo will be raised from five to six roundtrip flights a week. KLM and SLM will then each operate three flights a week.

From the same date, flight frequency and capacity will be increased on flights to the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. 

Bonaire will be served twelve times, Curaçao seven, Aruba five and Sint Maarten three times a week.

Flight frequency to São Paulo and Lima will be increased from five to six and from six to seven times a week respectively.

Africa

The winter schedule will include daily roundtrip flights to Cape Town (Boeing 777) and Cairo (Boeing 767).

The flights to Accra, Kilimanjaro/Dar es Salaam and Lagos will be served with increased capacity by using larger aircraft types.

Abudja in Nigeria will be taken up in the schedule as intermediate stopover for flights on the Amsterdam-Malabo route. As a consequence KLM flights to Duala will be suspended. It will still be possible to fly to this city with Air France via Paris.

Asia

In the winter schedule, the daily roundtrip flights to and from Jakarta will be operated five times a week with a stopover in Kuala Lumpur and twice with a stopover in Singapore. KLM operates daily to Singapore and five flights a week to Kuala Lumpur.

The five flights a week to and from Manila will be carried out nonstop using Boeing 777 equipment as of this winter. This KLM destination will be available to Air France passengers via Schiphol.

Middle East

The number of weekly roundtrip flights between Amsterdam and Kuwait will be reduced from six to five during the winter season.

Cargo

During the coming winter season, KLM Cargo will increase the number of weekly roundtrip flights operated using the three Boeing 747-400ER Freighters from thirteen to fourteen. An additional flight to Singapore will be taken up in the schedule. This expansion will be achieved through further optimizing freighter utilization. For example, effective October 31, all freighter flights to Singapore and from Osaka will be operated nonstop.

The schedule will be more closely aligned to market demand. For example, the flight frequency of the thrice-weekly service between Amsterdam and Osaka will be spread more efficiently over the week.

Additionally, the number of Boeing 747 combi frequencies to the Asia Pacific region will be raised from eleven to twelve times a week as from coming winter schedule: seven flights a week will be operated to Singapore, with two of these flights connecting on to Jakarta. KLM will also operate five flights a week from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur using combi equipment, which will also connect on to Jakarta.

KLM Cargo’s freighter and combi operations to and from other destinations will remain unchanged.

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