Amstelveen – 2005-02-12

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will restructure its flight schedule at the start of summer 2006, offering customers a wider range of frequencies and connecting flights. By better spreading peak load across the day, KLM will assure the Air France-KLM Group and SkyTeam partners further room for growth at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Adjustment of flight schedules will ensure improved utilization of the existing hub capacity in baggage systems, on ramps, at piers, and elsewhere.

KLM has projected an over 5% increase in available seat kilometer (ASK) capacity in 2006, compared to current levels.
KLM will strengthen its intercontinental network by maintaining its new services to Entebbe and Hyderabad, launched this winter, and by raising frequency to Dubai to two daily roundtrips.
The European schedule will see the addition of frequencies on important network destinations at the start of summer 2006. London Heathrow will be served with a 10th daily roundtrip. Düsseldorf, Geneva, Copenhagen, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, and Zurich will each be served with a sixth daily roundtrip. Frequency to Frankfurt, Glasgow and Gothenburg will be raised from four to five daily roundtrips. Aberdeen, Nice, and Nuremberg will each get a fourth frequency; Athens and Istanbul will get a third; and Kristiansand a second.
KLM will also begin operating thrice-daily roundtrips to Billund, Denmark, at the start of the 2006 summer schedule.
Frequency to Kiev will be raised from seven to eleven weekly roundtrips.

Owing to the schedule adjustment, the majority of arrival and departure times for KLM flights will change at the start of summer 2006.

KLM has worked in close cooperation with Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS), Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), and airports elsewhere to realize the upcoming schedule adjustment. KLM's SkyTeam and other partners will also adjust their flight schedules to and from Schiphol, to ensure the best possible connections between arriving and departing flights within the restructured schedule.

KLM's new summer schedule for 2006 will be published on www.klm.com and in the reservation systems from December 5, 2005.

 

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KLM Media Relations, Bart Koster, + 31 20 649 45 45.
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