In the coming months, KLM will serve around 90-95% of the European destinations it served before the crisis. Service will be suspended to a number of destinations, primarily in the United Kingdom. Overall capacity aboard European flights will be reduced from about 50% to 40% compared to pre-corona figures.
The second wave of coronavirus in Europe has resulted in new lockdowns, prompting KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to make network adjustments for the coming period. KLM will keep serving as many destinations as possible, but will reduce seat capacity and flight frequency.
In terms of intercontinental service, the number of passenger flights will be around 50-60% of pre-corona levels.
KLM also strengthens its market position whenever it adds a new destination to its network. The following services have been recently added or will be added in the coming months:
- Effective 4 January, KLM will operate four weekly flights to Riyadh (Saudi-Arabia);
- Effective 10 December, KLM will operate twice-weekly service to Zanzibar, with a stop in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) on the return leg to Amsterdam;
- Since 8 November, KLM operated thrice-daily service to the new airport Berlin Brandenburg (Germany);
- On 29 October, KLM resumed its circle flight Amsterdam-Calgary-Edmonton-Amsterdam, thus restoring service to Edmonton;
- Since 25 October, KLM has operated daily service to Poznan (Poland);
- Since 24 October, KLM has resumed weekly service from Amsterdam to Chengdu and from Beijing to Amsterdam.
Source: KLM
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