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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

KLM to fly to T&T up to 5 times weekly in 2023-2024

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Brent Pinheiro
623 days ago
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A KLM Airbus A330-300 in flight. Photo: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

A KLM Airbus A330-300 in flight. Photo: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

brent.pin­heiro@guardian.co.tt

KLM Roy­al Dutch Air­lines is set to in­crease ser­vice to Trinidad, adding a fourth ser­vice to Port of Spain (POS) from Oc­to­ber 29th as part of its win­ter 2023-2024 sched­ule. The air­line cur­rent­ly flies a tri­an­gle route from Am­s­ter­dam’s Schiphol Air­port (AMS) to Port of Spain (POS) via Sint Maarten (SXM) on Sun­days, Tues­days, and Fri­days.

The fourth flight will op­er­ate on Thurs­days with KL0787 de­part­ing Am­s­ter­dam (AMS) at 1:25pm, ar­riv­ing Port of Spain at 8:45 pm. The air­line will con­tin­ue to fly non­stop from Port-of-Spain back to the Nether­lands. Come Jan­u­ary 2024, KLM will op­er­ate a fifth flight on Mon­days. KL0787 de­parts AMS at 10:40 am, ar­riv­ing Port of Spain at 6:10 pm. The air­craft leaves just over an hour lat­er for the Nether­lands.

KLM restart­ed its ser­vice to T&T in Oc­to­ber 2021 af­ter an ab­sence of al­most 30 years. Since then, the air­line has record­ed an av­er­age load fac­tor of 75% in 2022 and 80% for 2023 thus far. The Tourism Min­istry says the POS-AMS leg’s load fac­tor stands at 90%.

In a press re­lease Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell stat­ed, “We are thrilled to wel­come KLM’s ex­tend­ed flight ser­vices to Trinidad and To­ba­go. This de­vel­op­ment re­flects our na­tion’s in­creas­ing ap­peal as a pre­mier tourist des­ti­na­tion. We be­lieve that im­proved con­nec­tiv­i­ty will not on­ly pro­mote cul­tur­al ex­change but al­so dri­ve eco­nom­ic growth and tourism in both of our coun­tries.”

The Tourism Min­istry says KLM’s move comes af­ter Min­is­ter Mitchell held talks with the air­line’s ex­ec­u­tives. There, the air­line re­port­ed­ly ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion with the route’s per­for­mance, say­ing that it ‘per­formed above their ex­pec­ta­tions’.

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