In addition to these new destinations, KLM will make seasonal adjustments to capacity in accordance with market demand and will seek to strengthen and, where possible, expand cooperation with partners. Overall, KLM will increase its network capacity by 2.8% this winter, compared to the winter of 2012-13.

We will also pursue fleet and product developments that are already underway. This winter we will begin replacing our Fokker 70 fleet with six new Embraer 90s, and we will complete the reconfiguration of our new World Business Class aboard our Boeing 747 fleet. Our Boeing 777s are next up for full reconfiguration.

Further expansion of European destination portfolio
Apart from Florence, Italy, KLM will continue operating to Kent (England) and Ålesund (Norway) this winter. These two destinations were added to the network this summer, and KLM has now decided to serve them year-round. In addition, KLM will increase capacity to Aalborg (Denmark), Athens (Greece) and Basel (Switzerland). The latter destination will be serve three daily frequencies from the start of the winter schedule.

This not only strengthens KLM’s European network and connectivity, but also ensures that KLM can offer additional connections to passengers flying on its intercontinental network.

North America – network optimisation
KLM will increase its capacity to existing destinations in North America to anticipate on specific strong winter seasonal demand and to enhance cooperation with its partners. In December and January, KLM will operate nine weekly flights to Mexico City (up from

seven) to meet increasing demand. This will also benefit KLM’s code-sharing partner AeroMéxico, offering a wide array of new connections.

KLM will also increase capacity in Canada. This winter, we will operate six weekly flights to Calgary, supported by the excellent connections of our Canadian partner West Jet.

Central and South America – cooperation as foundation for growth
In addition to Santiago de Chile, KLM will offer service to several other new destinations in cooperation with various partners. The Jamaican cities of Montego Bay and Kingston will be served this winter in cooperation with COPA Airlines. KLM will also intensify cooperation with Brazilian carrier GOL, offering flights to more destinations through Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Furthermore KLM will intensive its cooperation with InselAir to establish better connections to Caribbean destinations through Curacao.

Africa – network stabilisation
In Africa, our partnership with Kenya Airways is key. KLM is constantly striving to optimise this cooperative venture in order to offer an ever-growing network of African destinations. As was the case in summer, KLM will suspend direct service between Amsterdam and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Khartoum (Sudan). These cities will be served by Kenya Airways through Nairobi. 

KLM will, however, increase its own capacity to several African destinations, including Entebbe (Uganda) and Kigali (Rwanda), which will now be served daily.

Asia – growth in Southeast Asia
KLM will continue operating its service to Fukuoka (Japan) which was launched this summer. In addition, KLM has adjusted its Asian network in various ways to better meet market demand and improve its overall product. Flight frequency to Bangkok (Thailand) has, for instance, been increase from seven to 10 weekly services.

KLM will further build on a partnership with Jet Airways of India which was already launched last summer to enhance connectivity between India and Europa. KLM will continue to offer its passengers service to the Indian cities of Madras, Hyderabad and Bangalore through Delhi, to which KLM operates daily service.

Middle East – growth in cooperation with Etihad
In the Middle-East, KLM will this winter also optimise its partnership with Etihad Airways, increasing flight frequency to Etihad’s home base Abu Dhabi. By offering daily service, both partners will consolidate their cooperation. In addition to this capacity increase, KLM will also expand its network in cooperation with Etihad this winter, offering service to the Seychelles, Maldives, Brisbane (Australia), Khartoum (Sudan) and Karachi (Pakistan) via Abu Dhabi.

KLM will also increase capacity to Dubai this winter, offering 11 flights a week to this destination.

Apart from these new destinations, KLM will focus on adjusting capacity to seasonal fluctuations in demand and on strengthening and, where possible, expanding its cooperation with partners.

Europe – Expansion in North-Western Europe
KLM will continue to focus on North-Western Europe, as it did this summer, increasing the number of daily flights to Luxembourg, to Kristiansand and Stavanger in Norway, and Nuremberg in Germany. Furthermore, KLM took over the Lyon-Amsterdam route from Air France in September 2012, while Air France took over the Marseille-Amsterdam route from KLM.

In Eastern Europe, KLM will pursue its successful Joint Venture with Ukraine International, initiated this summer, raising frequency to Kiev from one to two daily flights this winter.

KLM will increase frequency between Amsterdam and Prague from three to four daily flights.

North America – Consolidation With Partners
Together with Delta Air Lines, partner in the Transatlantic Joint Venture, KLM will consolidate its position in the transatlantic market. Owing to fluctuating seasonal demand and soaring fuel prices, KLM will not serve Miami this winter. In addition, service to Dallas-Fort Worth will be suspended until the summer, as was the case last winter.

Capacity between Amsterdam and Atlanta, Delta Air Lines’ largest hub, will increase substantially this winter, with frequency rising from 14 to 19 weekly flights, operated by KLM and Delta. Service to Delta’s other hubs will also be maintained to ensure maximum connectivity with the US market. Minneapolis will be served twice daily, and Detroit thrice daily. Together, KLM and Delta will offer customers a total of 26 flights per week between Amsterdam and New York, with three daily flights to John F. Kennedy Airport and five weekly flights to Newark.

In Western Canada/Alberta, capacity to Calgary will be increased from four to five flights a week. Together with partner WestJet, KLM will gain further access to the entire Canadian market, adding its code to 10 new destinations here, bringing the total from 15 to 25 cities.

Central and South America – Deploying a More Efficient Fleet
On various routes to Central and South America, the MD-11 will be replaced with more fuel-efficient aircraft. The daily service between Amsterdam and Panama will, from the start of the winter schedule, be operated with a Boeing 777 instead of an MD-11.

On flights to and from the Dutch Caribbean, the Airbus A330 will for the first time replace the MD-11, operating alongside the Boeing 747. KLM will operate 13 roundtrips a week to this region, with extra flights before and after the Christmas holidays.

KLM will operate direct, service to Havana this winter three times a week, as was the case this summer.
In South America, KLM will replace its MD-11 with a Boeing 747 on flights between Amsterdam and Paramaribo. In addition to the usual three weekly frequencies, KLM will operate a fourth weekly flight in December and January to meet higher seasonal demand.

The flight frequency to Ecuador will be further increased to five a week, up from three last winter.
The number of weekly frequencies to Rio de Janeiro will be increased to four. In cooperation with Brazilian partner Gol, KLM will offer service to numerous Brazilian and South American destinations via Rio de Janeiro.
Capacity to Lima will be increased by deploying a Boeing 777-300 three times per week – KLM’s largest aircraft type, with 425 seats – on the daily service to the Peruvian capital.

Africa – Balanced Growth With More Destinations
KLM’s African network has grown substantially in the past year. In addition to the new destinations Luanda and Lusaka, KLM will launch service to Harare this winter, serving the Zimbabwean capital thrice weekly, in combination with the Zambian capital, Lusaka.

Frequency to other destinations will be adjusted in accordance with fluctuating seasonal demand. One less flight will be operated on the Entebbe-Kigali route this winter, while two extra weekly flights, departing in the afternoon, will be operated to Kilimanjaro, in addition to the daily flights to this destination, which is served in combination with Dar es Salaam.

Depending on market demand, frequency to Cairo will be increased gradually. This winter, KLM will operate four weekly B777-200 flights to the Egyptian capital.

Cooperation with Kenya Airways remains of great importance to KLM’s position in Africa. The twice-daily Kenya Airways/KLM service to Nairobi is an important feeder maintaining the network of secondary destinations in Kenya and East Africa.

KLM will operate daily service to Cape Town as it did last winter.

Middle East – Pursue Existing Strategy
Last summer, KLM made extensive network changes in the Middle East. Frequency to Dammam and Doha was increased from five to six flights a week, while frequency to Dubai was reduced to daily service. KLM will pursue its existing strategy in the region this winter. To meet the relatively high demand in winter, however, frequency to Dubai will be increased from seven to ten weekly flights from December through March.

The structure of the circle service to Abu Dhabi and Bahrein will be altered. As of this winter, KLM will operate direct service between Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi five times a week, with a tail-end leg between Abu Dhabi and Bahrein.

Asia – Capacity Adjusted to Seasonal Demand
This winter, KLM will adjust its Asian network in accordance with seasonal and regional fluctuations in demand.
Frequency to Shanghai will be reduced from 12 to 10 weekly flights. Frequency to Tokyo will also be gradually reduced to seven weekly frequencies in mid-winter, returning to nine in March.

KLM’s partner China Southern Airlines will, in close cooperation with KLM, increase frequency between Amsterdam and Guangzhou to a daily service this winter.

In Southeast Asia, KLM will increase capacity by operating thrice weekly direct service to Kuala Lumpur in the early afternoon, supplementing the daily flights to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta that depart in the evening. That means the Malaysian capital will be served 10 times a week this winter.

The new service schedule for Bangkok and Taipei/Manila, introduced this summer, will be continued this winter. That means both Bangkok and Taipei will be served directly every day, while Manila will be served daily via Taipei.
KLM will increase its flight frequency to Denpasar (Bali) to daily, with an intermediate stop in Singapore.

Fleet
KLM will continue to invest in cleaner, more efficient aircraft to assure customers of optimum service. The medium-range fleet will be adjusted by phasing out the last three Fokker 100s at the start of the winter season. The long-range fleet will welcome a new Boeing 777-300 and the phase-out of the MD-11 will continue.
For further information, please contact KLM Media Relations at +31 (0)20 649 4545.

*expressed in ASK

Starting 15 May 2012, flight KL561 will depart from Schiphol on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:30 hrs, arriving in Lusaka the same day at 22:10 hrs. The return flight, KL562, will depart Lusaka at 23:55 hrs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights and arrive in Amsterdam at 09:55 hrs the next morning.

Zambia is experiencing strong growth, thanks to its vigorous mining industry. Moreover, this new destination for KLM will create a direct link between Zambia’s flourishing flower industry and the Netherlands, which is the largest junction in the worldwide flower industry.
Zambia also offers a wide variety of tourist attractions. Tourism in Zambia is centred around the city of Livingstone, located on the banks of the Zambezi river and close to the famed Victoria Falls.

Together with Kenya Airways, KLM offers another thirteen flights a week to Lusaka via Nairobi. Thanks to the partnership with Kenya Airways, KLM and Air France can offer an extensive network throughout Africa. The alliance flies to many destinations including Harare, Mombassa, Lilongwe, and Bujumbura.

KLM is continuing the flight schedule structure that was introduced with the last summer season. The connections between European and intercontinental flights have been improved so passengers have more choice. Thanks to this flight schedule structure, called Seven Wave New Balance, KLM is able to expand its South American and Asian destinations. It also provides the flexibility to be able to respond adequately to political and economic developments in North Africa, among others.

Europe: KLM continues to expand flight frequencies
KLM continues to raise its frequencies in Europe which started in the summer. Compared to the previous winter season KLM has added 15 regular flights a day. Eight of these are in Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, in order to enhance the traditionally strong position of KLM in these areas. The Amsterdam-Aalborg route, which was successfully started in the summer, is being continued.

 
KLM is expanding strongly in Switzerland with an extra service to Zürich and Geneva, and by taking over two daily flights to Basel/Mulhouse from CityJet, a subsidiary of Air France. In Germany, KLM is expanding the number of flights to Frankfurt and Berlin. In Eastern Europe KLM is expanding with an extra flight to Prague, by intensifying collaborations with partner companies (Aeroflot, Bulgaria Air, Belavia, Georgian Airways and Olympic Air) and by using bigger aircraft for flights to Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw and Moscow.

 
North America: optimisation of Joint Venture
Together with Delta Air Lines, partner in the transatlantic joint venture, KLM will adapt the capacity to meet the seasonal demand and deal with the industry-wide overcapacity in the transatlantic market. In this context the service to Dallas-Fort Worth will be suspended until the summer.

 
This coming winter season a non-stop flight to Miami, which is an important Florida destination for the Dutch market, will be offered four times a week. For Houston the second daily flight in the full Business Class configuration will be replaced by a KLM Airbus 330-200 service, which means KLM is increasing the connectivity for the Houston market in the Economy Class segment. For Vancouver an Airbus 330-200 is used. In codeshare with its partner WestJet, KLM is offering 12 new destinations in Canada.

 
The major hubs of Delta Air Lines in the United States continue to be served as usual in order to guarantee maximum connectivity with the American market: there are two daily flights to Atlanta, two to Minneapolis and three to Detroit. Together with Delta Air Lines, KLM is offering 26 flights a week to New York, including three a day to John F. Kennedy and five a week to Newark.

 
South America: important growth market
South America is an important growth market for KLM. KLM is strongly increasing its range of flights for both tourists and business travellers, as well as improving its flight schedules.

 
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) have been added to the network as new destinations. There are three direct flights to these metropolises each week, using a Boeing 777-200. This is KLM's return to these destinations after a temporary absence. The capacity to São Paulo is further increased by the use of a Boeing 777-300 on a number of days. In codeshare with partners Gol and Aerolineas Argentinas, a large number of secondary destinations in South America are being offered via São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. In order to reduce the flight time for travellers and increase the efficiency of the operations, flights to and from Quito/Guayaquil will be direct this winter season, without stopovers in Bonaire.

 
Central America: significant increase in capacity
KLM is expanding its capacity in the Caribbean. Havana (Cuba) and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) have been added as new destinations, which increases the number of destinations in the Caribbean to six. There are a total of three flights a week to Havana, of which two are combined with Punta Cana.

 
Flights to the Dutch Antilles remain as popular as ever. The number of frequencies is therefore being increased: Curacao is changing from seven to nine, Aruba from three to five and Bonaire from six to seven times a week.

KLM is changing to a daily service for Panama. In addition, the onward connections to destinations in Central America in conjunction with partner company Copa Airlines have been further improved by reducing the connection times. This confirms the successful collaboration with Copa Airlines once again.

 
Africa: reinforcing the position
The oil destination in Angola, Luanda, is being added to the KLM network. Luanda will be serviced twice a week with a Boeing 777-200. In addition, KLM is increasing the number of regular flights to Cape Town from five to seven times a week in order to satisfy the seasonal demand.

 
This winter season KLM is maintaining the frequency level in Africa for destinations like Kigali, Entebbe, Lagos, Accra and Johannesburg and, with joint-venture partner Kenya Airways, is offering a large number of secondary destinations via Nairobi.

Because of the unstable political situation in North Africa the capacity to Tripoli and Cairo has been adjusted. KLM will continue to service Cairo on a daily basis with a 737-700. Operations to Tripoli will be resumed as soon as circumstances permit.

 
Middle East: selective expansion
KLM aims to stabilise and selectively expand its network in the Middle East. For example, the number of regular flights to Damman and Doha are being increased from five to six a week and the capacity to Teheran is expanded with the use of a 777-200. For both the tourist and the business market the service to Dubai remains attractive by maintaining a morning and afternoon schedule.

Asia: increasing the market position
This winter KLM is consolidating its strong position in China. In addition to daily flights to Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai (12 times a week), KLM will also fly to Chengdu, Hangzhou and Xiamen three times a week this winter. For Chengdu this means a frequency increase from twice to three times a week compared to the last winter season. A service to Xiamen was started the past summer season and will be continued. KLM partner China Southern Airlines is continuing flights between Amsterdam and Guangzhou (three times a week) this winter in close cooperation with KLM.

For Japan KLM is adapting its capacity to the seasonal demand. KLM has reduced the number of flights to Tokyo from 10 to 7 a week, while an extra service has been added to Osaka. As a result KLM can offer a daily flight to both destinations.

In Southeast Asia KLM is increasing services to its successful destination Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia) from four to five times a week, with a stopover in Singapore. 

In conjunction with Delta Air Lines the capacity to Mumbai (India) will be increased this winter season with the use of an Airbus 330-300.

 
Fleet
KLM continues to invest in clean and efficient aircraft in order to guarantee its customers optimal service. After this winter the complete medium-distance fleet will consist of a new generation of Boeing 737 aircraft. Two new Airbus 330-300s will be added to the long-haul fleet. 

As a result of recovery in demand, KLM will increase capacity on the North Atlantic routes by 8%. Together with KLM’s North Atlantic Joint Venture partner Delta Air Lines, 20 destinations will be offered with a nonstop service. The significant growth is generated partly by an increasing number of services and partly by deploying larger aircraft. On the Amsterdam-Atlanta route, KLM and Delta will grow by almost 50% in seats; KLM will increase its services from five times per week to a daily service and Delta Air Lines will deploy a daily Airbus 330-300 service on this route. As a result, many destinations beyond both hubs will be well connected by this service, which operates twice a day.

San Francisco and Mexico City will be served daily, increasing from six weekly frequencies and KLM will allocate 4% more seats to Toronto. The third daily service to New York (JFK), as currently being operated by Delta Air Lines, will be continued during the coming winter season. Portland, Oregon, will be served with an additional frequency to a total of five times per week.

Continued focus on the strategic growth area, Asia

Asia remains one of KLM’s important growth markets. During recent years, KLM has offered its clients a continuously growing range of destinations. During the last two seasons, Hangzhou (China) and Denpasar (Indonesia) were added to KLM’s intercontinental network at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The three weekly direct services to Hangzhou, as well as the four weekly tail-end operations to Denpasar will be continued throughout the winter 2010– 2011 season. KLM will upgrade the daily service to Delhi by deploying its newest long-haul aircraft Boeing 777-300. Furthermore, frequency expansions have been introduced to Seoul from five to six weekly frequencies. During winter 2010–2011, KLM will continue to invest in this strategically important market.

KLM will further strengthen its position in Japan by adding three weekly flights to Tokyo Narita from November onwards, bringing the total to ten weekly services. In doing so, KLM takes a historic step in the enhancement of the long-lasting relationship between Japan and The Netherlands, meeting the strong demand of Japanese companies situated in The Netherlands.

Stabilizing network in the Middle East

For the Middle East, KLM aims to maintain and stabilise its network, while selectively growing to Teheran, five to six weekly flights, and Dubai twelve to thirteen weekly flights.

Strengthening a consistent product and expanding portfolio in Africa

KLM will increase its portfolio in Africa with the start-up of Kigali (Rwanda) as tail-end operation behind Entebbe (Uganda). The frequency level will be increased from a four weekly Entebbe operation in the previous winter season to a five times per week combined Entebbe-Kigali service in winter 2010, to accommodate for additional traffic from the fast growing East African region. Furthermore, KLM will maintain its position in Africa through continuing its frequencies to all its African destinations, amongst others Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cairo, Lagos and Accra. During this winter, KLM will also continue its twice-daily service to Nairobi in cooperation with its partner Kenya Airways, therewith offering multiple connections to a wide range of destinations in Africa, including new KQ destinations such as Luanda (Angola) and Juba (Sudan).

Focus on growing Latin American markets and maintaining the position in the Dutch Antilles

In response to rapidly growing Latin American markets, KLM will increase the number of services to São Paulo during the winter season, by reinstating the seventh weekly frequency. This results in a year-round daily product to the largest market of South America. In addition, seat capacity will be increased to São Paulo, as soon as KLM’s fifth B777-300 is introduced in its long-haul fleet, in March 2011. Furthermore, from the start of winter 2010, KLM will increase the number of frequencies to Panama City (five to six weekly). By doing so, KLM will further build on the successful cooperation with Copa Airlines, at the same time resulting in improved connectivity for KLM’s passengers to multiple destinations in Central America.

Current summer 2010 frequency levels to the Dutch Antilles will be maintained, which include the twice weekly Aruba-Curuçao services that were successfully re-introduced at the end of the previous winter season.

In Europe, KLM will add capacity on well recovering destinations

Major destinations like Manchester, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Moscow have an increase in the number of seats. Destinations closer to home, in Germany (Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bremen and Hanover) and the Benelux (Brussels and Luxemburg) benefit from the phase out of the Fokker 50 turboprop and now enjoy a full-jet product. KLM will start its own operation to Budapest, and the cooperation with Malev Airlines will be terminated. KLM, together with partner Rossiya Airlines, will offer twelve flights per week to St Petersburg, compared to nine the previous winter. This summer, the number of weekly flights to Liverpool increased from three to four, which will be continued this winter. Together with partner Alitalia, KLM now offers four flights a day to Linate airport, located near the centre of Milan. Also, KLM will add Belgrade to its European network through a codeshare with partner airline JAT Airways.

Fleet renewal

KLM continues to renew its fleet. The present generation of Boeing 737 aircraft will continue to be phased out from the medium-haul fleet and Boeing 737 next generation aircraft will be introduced. An additional Airbus 330-200 will be added to the long-haul fleet, bringing the total to eleven.

KLM will be making every effort to resume scheduled flight operations as soon as possible, transporting passengers and cargo to their destinations worldwide. Capacity will be increased wherever possible. For example, an extra flight will be operated today to Curaçao and Bonaire, which will be expected to return to Amsterdam tomorrow.

For the exact flight times and information on specific destinations, please refer to the KLM website at www.klm.com. Given the exceptional circumstances, a special page has been created with arrival and departure times. KLM advises passengers to consult the website for information about departing flights before travelling to Schiphol.

The summer schedule continues the optimized connectivity that was successfully introduced in the current winter season, shortening total travel time for the customers. Flight frequency to certain stations will be increased in summer to improve connectivity. Specifically, operations to Munich, Stuttgart, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Edinburgh will increase to five times per day. During summer, the services to Liverpool and Toulouse will be increased from three to four frequencies per day.

In its St Petersburg service, KLM will increase to daily operation from the start of summer 2010. Together with partner airline Rossiya, KLM will then offer twelve weekly flights. KLM’s close cooperation with Alitalia will continue to improve the product for its customers between the Netherlands and Italy. Alitalia recently started five weekly flights between Amsterdam and Turin, which will continue into the summer season.

Growth in promising Asian destinations

KLM aims to reinforce its position in the fast-growing Chinese market. It will therefore continue to serve the Amsterdam-Beijing route 14 times weekly together with its strategic partner airline China Southern. KLM will schedule twelve weekly flights to Shanghai, which is one additional flight compared to the end of this winter. Starting from June, services to Chengdu will be increased to four weekly. The seven weekly flights to Hong Kong will be maintained. Besides these developments, further opportunities in China are explored on a continuous basis and are expected to be announced shortly.

The start-up of the tail-end operation from Singapore to Denpasar, a popular destination for KLM passengers, will be continued, operating four weekly flights during summer season. In Tokyo, the uniform Boeing 747 product introduced in the current winter season will be continued in the summer season, while capacity to Seoul will be increased from five to six weekly flights in Boeing 747 combined passenger and freight aircraft.

Improving position through frequency – and type changes to the Middle East

Compared to last summer, the flight frequency to Teheran will increase by one to six weekly flights. On its service to Dubai, KLM will make its product for business travellers more attractive by increasing frequency to 13 weekly flights: six weekly in Airbus 330-200 aircraft and seven weekly in Boeing 747 combined passenger and freight aircraft.

Further strengthening the North Atlantic position

On North Atlantic routes, KLM will further strengthen her position by a light growth of approximately 1%. The successful transatlantic joint venture with Northwest Airlines has been migrated into a new three-party joint venture with AIR FRANCE, KLM and Delta Air Lines. As a result, the capacity will be increased to Atlanta and New York (JFK), which are major hubs for Delta Air Lines. Both Atlanta and New York will be served three times daily. The services to the former hubs of Northwest Airlines will remain on the same frequency as last summer, meaning four flights a day to Detroit, three a day to Minneapolis and a daily service to Memphis. Another result of KLM’s cooperation with Delta Air Lines is that both networks have been further connected with fully reciprocal code shares, further increasing the number of destinations offered in their joint networks.

San Francisco will be served in a combination of Boeing 777-200/300 aircraft, KLM’s newest aircraft. The service to Seattle will be extended by Delta Air Lines in the peak of the summer through an additional afternoon departure three times per week, creating a total of ten services per week. The capacity to Boston will be increased to a twice-daily service with a mixture of Airbus 330-300 and Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The product to Portland will grow from six times per week to a daily service.

Reinforcing market position in Africa and Central and South America

KLM aims to reinforce its position in Africa by maintaining flight frequency to a number of destinations, including Cairo, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town and Johannesburg. To accommodate additional demand during the peak period in June through August, one flight will be added to the Cairo service, increasing operations to seven weekly flights. In the same period, a flight will be added to the Entebbe service, increasing it to five weekly flights during the summer. The operation to Dar Es Salam will be increased to seven weekly flights, starting in June and continuing for the rest of the summer. During this summer, KLM will continue its twice-daily service to Nairobi in cooperation with its partner Kenya Airways; with that partner, it offers multiple connections to destinations in Eastern Africa.

Due to specific business demand on Aruba, KLM will also operate two weekly flights to this popular destination during the summer season. The flights will be operated in addition to the services operated by Martinair. The flight between Sint Maarten and Bonaire which was introduced last year will operate throughout the complete summer season. On Paramaribo, KLM will increase capacity and operate five flights every week as of the start of the season, while an extra weekly flight is planned in the peak season to accommodate additional traffic.

During the summer, KLM will offer five weekly flights to Panama, with onward connections to numerous destinations in Latin America with its code-share partner Copa Airlines. The code-share cooperation between KLM and Copa has recently been expanded with the addition of the KLM code on Copa flights to San Jose in Costa Rica and San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa in Honduras.

The Sao Paulo operation will be increased to a daily service from six weekly flights during the current winter season. At the same time, code-share cooperation has started with Brazilian airline Gol Transportes Aereos, increasing the number of South American destinations offered to KLM’s customers.

Fleet renewal

KLM continues to renew its fleet. By the start of summer 2010, KLM will have finalized the phaseout of the Fokker 50 from its regional fleet. At the end of the coming summer season, KLM will have introduced an additional ten new Embraer 190 aircraft compared to the end of previous summer season. The present generation of Boeing 737 aircraft will continue to be phased out from the medium-haul fleet and the next generation of Boeing 737 aircraft will be introduced.