KLM starts flying three
times a week November 4
PHILIPSBURG--Royal Dutch Airlines KLM will be flying to and from St. Maarten three times a week starting November 4.
The flights will be Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. KLM currently executes the Amsterdam-St. Maarten-Curaçao-Amsterdam flight two times a week, on Tuesday and Saturday. Flights are carried out with a Boeing 747-400 and go via Curaçao.
The last time KLM executed three flights a week was from October last year to April this year. Two of these flights were carried out with a MD-11 and were direct flights Amsterdam-St. Maarten-Amsterdam. The direct flights were cancelled because the load factors weren’t high enough.
KLM’s local handling agent is Arrindell Aviation Services, which has been handling the airline for 15 years, since its inception. KLM was actually Arrindell’s first client.
KLM has a staff of 34,529 worldwide: 30,367 in the Netherlands and 4,162 abroad. The airline has a flight crew roster of 7,373 for a fleet of 188 aircraft. In the fiscal year 2003-2004 it transported 23 million passengers and 529,000 tonnes of cargo.
KLM and its partners, such as Air France, Continental, Northwest Airlines, KLM Exel, Malaysia Airways, Kenya Airways and China South Airlines, fly to 400 cities in 85 countries, covering six continents.
To celebrate its 85th anniversary, KLM has a sweepstakes called “KLM Globetrotter.” Participants can win tickets around the world for 85 days for two persons. Other prizes include free airline tickets for two persons, free car rental and free Flying Dutchman miles, KLM’s frequent flyer programme.
