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KLM boosts City and Inverness links


Ian Taylor ian.taylor@travelweekly.co.uk


KLM doubled its weekday services from London City to Amsterdam on Monday and also went double-daily from Inverness, offering increased options for long-haul connections from Schiphol.


Services from London City have


risen from four a day to eight on Mondays to Fridays. The existing weekend schedule, with three flights on Saturday, is unchanged. The Dutch carrier resumed


flying between London City and Amsterdam in February after a gap of eight years with two flights


KLM: The Dutch carrier now flies eight times a day from London City to Amsterdam


[leasing both aircraft and crew].” He said onward flights from


Amsterdam to Lagos, Accra and Colombo are among the most popular routes from London City, saying the route serves “a mix of corporate and VFR traffic”. Inverness-Amsterdam services


each weekday operated by KLM Cityhopper. It added two more from the start of the summer schedule. This week it took over four


London City-Amsterdam services operated by CityJet each weekday. CityJet, a subsidiary of Air France- KLM until 2014, will continue to operate the flights on behalf of KLM. From Inverness, KLM launched


daily flights to Amsterdam last year and has now added a second daily service for the summer schedule. It offers connections to more than


150 destinations from Schiphol. Warner Rootliep, Air France-KLM


general manager for the UK and Ireland, said: “CityJet wanted to stop flying City-Schiphol so we agreed to wet-lease the flights


have proved strong in the leisure market, he said. “We began flights last year and had very high load factors in summer. We are so confident this summer we’ve added a second frequency.” Up to 50% of seats on KLM’s


flights between Amsterdam and the 17 UK airports it serves are sold in the UK, of which “roughly


70%” come through the trade. klm.com


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