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KLM announces 2005/6 Winter Schedule

Travel News Asia 23 September 2005

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is to begin operating business jet services to Houston at the start of the 2005-06 winter schedule. The new Airbus A330-200 will be deployed on routes to the United States and Middle East. KLM will also launch services to new destinations in the East African and Indian growth markets.

KLM and Air France are to further align their networks by consolidating services to Kuwait and Malabo (Equatorial Guinea).

Overall, KLM will raise capacity (in available seat kilometers) by 7%, compared to last winter. The winter schedule commences on Sunday, October 30, and ends on Saturday, March 25, 2006.

Network alignment with Air France

Air France will suspend services between Paris and Kuwait at the start of the winter schedule. KLM's French partner will offer its passengers service to and from Kuwait on KLMs flights through Amsterdam.

At the same time, KLM will suspend services to Malabo, offering its passengers service to and from this East-African city on Air France flights through Paris.

Europe

KLM will take over Air France services on the Amsterdam-Bordeaux route. Roundtrips will be operated twice daily with KLM cityhopper Fokker 70s. KLM will suspend operations on the Rotterdam-London City route at the start of the winter schedule.

Air France will begin operating thrice-daily roundtrips between Eindhoven and Paris Charles de Gaulle with ATR-5 equipment. On December 11, Dutch Railways NS will begin operating high-frequency, direct rail services between Eindhoven and Schiphol Airport. Effective that same date, KLM cityhopper will suspend its flights on this route.

North/South America

Effective October 30, KLM will introduce an exclusive Business Class product between Amsterdam and Houston, operating six weekly roundtrips on this route with a 44-seat Boeing 737-700 business jet. These new services will supplement KLMs existing daily roundtrips on this route, which offer the regular two-class product.

The new Airbus A330-200 will operate services to Washington and Newark.

Capacity will be increased on the Amsterdam-Toronto route. All flights will be operated with Boeing 747-400 equipment.

KLM will maintain higher flight frequency to San Francisco and Sao Paulo, introduced this summer. That means daily services will be operated to both cities this winter.

Africa

KLM will begin operating thrice-weekly Boeing 767 roundtrips between Amsterdam and the new destination Entebbe (Uganda) at the start of the winter schedule.

KLM will also deploy larger aircraft between Amsterdam and Nairobi (Kenya), so that more passengers gain access to Kenya Airways hub network in East Africa.

KLM will maintain its roundtrips connecting Amsterdam with Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) and Khartoum (Sudan). KLM began serving these cities this summer.

Frequency to Abuja (Nigeria) will be reduced by one flight a week.

Middle East

KLM will begin operating Airbus A330-200 service between Amsterdam and Bahrain/Abu Dhabi towards the end of the winter schedule.

Frequency on the Amsterdam-Dubai route will be gradually raised from seven to twelve weekly roundtrips.

The daily roundtrips between Amsterdam and Tel Aviv (Israel), introduced this summer, will be maintained this winter.

Asia

Hyderabad will be added to the KLM route network this winter. KLM will operate thrice-weekly, MD-11 services to this Indian city.

KLM will maintain daily, direct service to Manila (Philippines), launched this summer. Similarly, KLM will maintain daily service to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Jakarta (Indonesia), launched on July 4.

KLM Cargo

This winter, KLM Cargo will increase freighter frequency between Amsterdam and Hong Kong from four to five weekly roundtrips. Earlier this month, on September 5, KLM added a fourth weekly freighter frequency on the Amsterdam-Shanghai route.

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