San Diego is about to get one other nonstop connection to Europe.
KLM Royal Dutch Airways introduced Tuesday that it will add nonstop service from San Diego Worldwide Airport (SAN) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) starting Might 8, 2025.
This new thrice-weekly service will function on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays on a 275-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. KLM’s 787-9 Dreamliner options 30 lie-flat business-class pods, 21 premium financial system recliners and 224 financial system seats.
Flights will depart San Diego at 1:55 p.m. and land in Amsterdam at 9:15 a.m. the following day. Westbound flights will go away Amsterdam at 9:50 a.m. and land in San Diego at midday.
Amsterdam is KLM’s megahub and in addition serves as one of many key connecting factors for SkyTeam alliance vacationers heading from Europe to factors all through the world. San Diego-based vacationers will quickly have entry to over 160 locations past Amsterdam, in accordance with KLM and airport authorities.
KLM will develop into the nineteenth provider to serve San Diego. The Amsterdam service will develop into the airport’s third nonstop path to Europe. KLM will be part of British Airways (London) and Lufthansa (Munich) as European airways that fly to San Diego.
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At 5,613 miles, this new route will develop into KLM’s longest to the U.S.
San Diego is “a big, unserved marketplace for the three way partnership of Air France, KLM, Delta and Virgin Atlantic, with regular progress over the previous decade,” the airline defined in a brief assertion.
KLM already serves 14 locations within the U.S. Some are key home SkyTeam hubs, however others are main cities with sufficient demand for nonstop flights to Amsterdam. San Diego will be part of Austin and Portland, Oregon, as non-SkyTeam airports which have nonstop KLM flights.
Along with the brand new San Diego service, KLM introduced that it’ll additionally add service to Georgetown, Guyana, as a part of a triangle route connecting to St. Martin. The airline will even fly to Hyderabad, India, subsequent 12 months.
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