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From airlineroute.net:
KLM S16 Long-Haul Operation Changes, effective 27MAR16
Amsterdam – Bogota – Cali – Amsterdam Increase from 3 to 4 weekly, Northern Summer 2016 season operated by 777-200ER
Amsterdam – Chengdu Boeing 787-9 replaces 747-400COMBI, 4 times a week
Amsterdam – Kigali – Entebbe – Amsterdam Airbus A330-300 replaces -200, 3 times a week
Amsterdam – Quito – Guayaquil – Amsterdam Boeing 787-9 operation currently displays 3 times a week (Remainder 4 weekly currently not listed in the GDS)
Amsterdam – Rio de Janeiro Increase from 6 to 7 weekly, Boeing 777-200ER operation
Amsterdam – Washington Dulles Boeing 777-200ER replaces A330-200/-300 on 5 of 7 weekly (Remainder 2 weekly currently not listed in the GDS)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in the past 7 days gradually updated its Summer 2016 long-haul operation, effective 27MAR16.
Amsterdam – Calgary Boeing 777-200ER operates daily in S16, replacing 4 weekly 777-200ER and 3 weekly A330-200 in S15
Amsterdam – Hangzhou Boeing 777-200ER continues operation during Summer season on/after 27MAR16, 3 times a week. (Boeing 787-9 scheduled from 02MAR16 to 26MAR16 only)
Amsterdam – Lima Boeing 777-300ER operation increases from 4 to 5 weekly (Day x27), -200ER operates 2 weekly (Day 27)
Amsterdam – Montreal Airbus A330-300 operates daily, replacing 6 weekly A330-300 and 1 weekly -200 in S15
Amsterdam – Tokyo Narita KL861/862 daily service to be operated by 777-200ER 4 times a week (Day x247 from AMS), 747-400 3 times a week (Day 247)
Amsterdam – Toronto Operational aircraft gradually moving to A330, as Boeing 747 operation reduced
KL691/692 332 Day 347 333 Day x347
KL695/696 332 Day 13 333 Day 4 74E Day 25
Amsterdam – Vancouver Boeing 777-200ER operates daily in S16, replacing A330-300 in S15
Amsterdam – Washington Dulles Operational aircraft changes in effect. Operational aircraft from 27MAR16 to 30APR16: 772 Day x36 332 Day 36
Previously reported changes:
Amsterdam – Bogota – Cali – Amsterdam Addition of 4th weekly service, 777-200ER operates in NS16, same as NS15
Amsterdam – Chengdu Boeing 787-9 replaces 747-400COMBI
Amsterdam – Kigali – Entebbe – Amsterdam KL535 3 weekly service operates with A330-300, replacing -200
Amsterdam – Quito – Guayaquil – Amsterdam Boeing 787-9 operates daily, replacing 5 weekly 777-200ER and 2 weekly 787-9 in W15
Amsterdam – Rio de Janeiro Addition of 7th weekly service, 777-200ER operation
Note the OAG’s schedule listing is displaying schedule until first week of May 2016. Additional information will appear on Airline Route in the next few weeks.
- Atlanta 3x daily with A333, instead of 1xA333/1xB744/1xB764
- Boston B752 replaces B764 on DL233
- Detroit 2x B764 and 2x A333, instead of 1xA332/1xA333/1xB764/1xB744
- New York B764 replaces B763 on DL049
- Seattle reduces to 1x daily A333, instead of 2x daily A333
El Al:
- LY337/338 B763 replaces B744 on Mon,Fri,Sun
- LY339/336 B739 replaces B738 on Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Sun
United Airlines:
- Newark service operated by B752 instead of B763, flightnumber changes from UA877 into UA071
Update over de inzet van de toekomstige Boeing 787-9 bij KLM:
Bron: airlineroute.net
KLM starting July 2016 plans to expand Boeing 787-9 operations to Asia, where it plans to operate service to Shanghai Pu Dong and Tokyo Narita. Boeing 787-9 schedule to these destinations first appeared 3 weeks ago, and Airline Route briefly mentioned this via twitter account.
The week of 21JUN15′s OAG Schedules Analyser update currently lists operational schedule of KLM’s until 21JUL16.
eff 01JUL16 Amsterdam – Tokyo Narita Boeing 787-9 operates once a week on this route
KL863 AMS1750 – 1200+1NRT 789 5
KL864 NRT1350 – 1830AMS 789 6
eff 04JUL16 Amsterdam – Shanghai Pu Dong Boeing 787-9 operates 3 times a week on this route
KL895 AMS1730 – 1005+1PVG 789 146
KL896 PVG1215 – 1800AMS 789 257
Further, the airline will also operate Boeing 787-9 on Amsterdam – Fukuoka route, from 03JUL16. 787-9 is scheduled to operate this route for the month of March 2016 as well.
From airlineroute.net, an update of KLM's East Africa schedule, effective Summer 2016:
KLM at the start of Northern Summer 2016 season plans to adjust East Africa operations, which sees routing changes. Planned changes from 26MAR16 as follow, which also includes an overall service increase.
Amsterdam – Kigali – Entebbe – Amsterdam Triangle routing reduces from 7 to 3 weekly, A330-300 service
KL535 AMS1035 – 1910KGL2020 – 2220EBB2330 – 0655+1AMS 333 357
Amsterdam – Entebbe 4 of 7 weekly flights operating as terminator flights, A330-300 service
KL561 AMS1240 – 2155EBB 333 x357
KL562 EBB2330 – 0655+1AMS 333 x357
Amsterdam – Kilimanjaro – Dar es Salaam – Amsterdam Triangle routing reduces from 7 to 3 weekly, A330-300 service
KL569 AMS1010 – 1950JRO2050 – 2155DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 333 3
KL567 AMS1010 – 1950JRO2050 – 2155DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 333 57
Amsterdam – Dar es Salaam 4 of 7 weekly flights operating as terminator flights, A330-200 service
KL573 AMS1110 – 2120DAR 332 x357
KL574 DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 332 x357
Schalkcity wrote:From airlineroute.net, an update of KLM's East Africa schedule, effective Summer 2016:
KLM at the start of Northern Summer 2016 season plans to adjust East Africa operations, which sees routing changes. Planned changes from 26MAR16 as follow, which also includes an overall service increase.
Amsterdam – Kigali – Entebbe – Amsterdam Triangle routing reduces from 7 to 3 weekly, A330-300 service
KL535 AMS1035 – 1910KGL2020 – 2220EBB2330 – 0655+1AMS 333 357
Amsterdam – Entebbe 4 of 7 weekly flights operating as terminator flights, A330-300 service
KL561 AMS1240 – 2155EBB 333 x357
KL562 EBB2330 – 0655+1AMS 333 x357
Amsterdam – Kilimanjaro – Dar es Salaam – Amsterdam Triangle routing reduces from 7 to 3 weekly, A330-300 service
KL569 AMS1010 – 1950JRO2050 – 2155DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 333 3
KL567 AMS1010 – 1950JRO2050 – 2155DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 333 57
Amsterdam – Dar es Salaam 4 of 7 weekly flights operating as terminator flights, A330-200 service
KL573 AMS1110 – 2120DAR 332 x357
KL574 DAR2305 – 0725+1AMS 332 x357
The Korean Air messages have been moved offline for 2 reasons: first one is lack of source mentioning as the topic was a direct copy from a news website. Second reason: the airlines states a possible introduction of an extra service what makes it speculations.
easyJet has released a first schedule for S16, which indicates the following changes:
- BFS +2 flights to 9x/week in S16 (S15 only in Jul/Aug)
- SXF +2 flights to 22x/week in S16 (4x/day on Mon, Fri)
- LTN +1 flight on Thu = 24x/week
- LYS new route 4x/week
- LIN new route 6x/week
- PRG +4 flights to 11x/week (2x/day Sun, Mon, Thu, Fri)
- FCO possibly a big reduction from 3x/day, as only 1x/daily is shown at this moment.
- TLV new route 4x/week
- VIE new route 7x/week
Transavia has released its first schedule for S16.
The airline plans to move two routes from RTM to AMS: Dubrovnik (3x/week) and Bergerac 4x/week).
While flight frequencies to Tel Aviv (4x/week), Malaga (17x/week), Ibiza (10x/week), Palma de Mallorca (9x/week), Alicante (17x/week), Valencia (9x/week), Sevilla (7x/week), Faro (11x/week), Bari (4x/week) and Pisa (9x/week) will be raised.
Airline Route gives a good overview of the latest changes to KLM's S16 Summer schedule:
Posted at 1705GMT - 06OCT15
KLM this week rolled out 2nd major update for planned long-haul service for summer 2016 season, effective 27MAR16.
Latest changes as of 06OCT15 as follows starting from 27 March 2016:
- Amsterdam – Almaty Airbus A330-300 replaces -200, service operates 4 weekly during summer
- Amsterdam – Aruba – Bonaire – Amsterdam eff 04JUL16 Day 1 service operates with A330-200, instead of planned -300 (Overall 2 weekly A330-300 and 1 weekly A330-200)
- Amsterdam – Bonaire – Aruba – Amsterdam eff 08JUL16 Day 5 service operates with A330-300, instead of -200 (Overall 2 weekly A330-300)
- Amsterdam – Cairo 4 weekly service operates with 777-200ER, instead of planned 787-9
- Amsterdam – Calgary 27MAR16 – 02JUL16 Airbus A330-200 replaces 777-200ER, daily service
- Amsterdam – Cape Town Northern Summer season gradual increase to daily
01MAY16 – 04JUL16 Increase from 5 to 6 weekly
eff 04JUL16 Increase from 6 to 7 weekly
Boeing 787-9 begins operation on this route on following days
04MAY16 – 01JUL16 Day 35
eff 03JUL16 Daily
- Amsterdam – Chengdu Planned 787-9 service, replacing 747-400COMBI, remains unchanged. However 4th weekly service (Day 2/3) is delayed to 05JUL16
- Amsterdam – Delhi Boeing 787-9 replaces A330-200, daily service
- Amsterdam – Dubai eff 08SEP16 Boeing 787-9 replaces 777-200ER on Day 46/57
- Amsterdam – Edmonton 4th weekly service in summer scheduled from 27MAR16, delayed to 05JUL16
- Amsterdam – Hangzhou Boeing 787-9 operates on 2 of 3 weekly flights (Day 16/27), replacing 777-200ER
- Amsterdam – Havana eff 10JUL16 5th weekly service in summer season operates with A330-300, instead of -200 (Overall 5 weekly A330-300)
- Amsterdam – Houston Service operates 7 weekly with 747-400COMBI, reduced from 9 weekly
- Amsterdam – Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta Service operates with 5 weekly 777-300ER and 2 weekly -200ER (Previous plan: 6 77W/1 772 from June 2016)
- Amsterdam – Lagos Boeing 777-200ER replaces A330-300, daily service
- Amsterdam – Lima Daily 777-300ER operation throughout entire Northern summer, replacing 777-200ER/-300ER
- Amsterdam – Los Angeles eff 30JUN16 Service increases from 12 to 13 weekly, 747-400/-400COMBI operation
- Amsterdam – Mexico City 9 weekly 747-400COMBI service during summer season begins from 27MAR16, instead of 23JUN16. 10th weekly flight will be added from 29JUN16
- Amsterdam – Montreal Day 2 service operated by A330-200, replacing planned -300 (Overall 6 weekly A330-300 and 1 weekly -200)
- Amsterdam – New York JFK Operational aircraft mainly focused on 747-400COMBI and 777-200ER (747-400 and 777-300ER operation during peak season is cancelled)
- Amsterdam – Osaka Kansai Revised operational aircraft includes the addition of 787-9
27MAR16 – 18JUN16 789 Day 357/146 772 Day x357/x146
19JUN16 – 04SEP16 789 Day 357/146 77W Day x357/x146
eff 05SEP16 789 Day x246/x357 77W Day 246/357
Service to Osaka was previously scheduled as daily 777-300ER (77W) flight
- Amsterdam – Quito – Guayaquil – Amsterdam Planned 787-9 service cancelled. Service to be operated by 777-200ER/-300ER on daily basis
- Amsterdam – Rio de Janeiro Revised Boeing 787-9 operation sees the Dreamliner also operates in April 2016
27MAR16 – 29JUL16 789 Day 246 772 Day 57 (Day 1 from 20JUN16)
30JUL16 – 04SEP16 6 weekly 777-200ER/-300ER and 787-9
eff 05SEP16 6 weekly 787-9
- Amsterdam – Sao Paulo Revised Boeing 787-9 operational date as follow: 30JUL16 / 02AUG16 / 04AUG16 / 09AUG16 / 11AUG16 / 18AUG16
- Amsterdam – Shanghai Pu Dong
eff 20JUN16 Summer peak season operates 13 weekly, increase from 12. All flights operated by 747-400/-400COMBI. Planned 787-9 and 777-200ER service cancelled
- Amsterdam – Taipei Taoyuan – Manila Boeing 777-300ER operation increases to 6 weekly (-200ER 1 weekly). 777-300ER operates daily from 01JUL16
- Amsterdam – Tokyo Narita Revision of planned operational aircraft sees 787-9 service from July 2016 being cancelled. Service operates with 747-400COMBI/777-200ER/777-300ER, and switches to 777 only from 03SEP16
- Amsterdam – Toronto Revision of planned operational aircraft starting 18JUN16, instead of 03JUL16
18JUN16 – 05SEP16 12 weekly 777-200ER
eff 06SEP16 787-9 operates KL695/696 Day x147, replacing 777-200ER (Day x47 from 26SEP16)
- Amsterdam – Vancouver Revision of planned operational aircraft
27AMR16 – 30APR16 A330-300 (Previous plan: 777-200ER)
01MAY16 – 29OCT16 777-200ER
- Amsterdam – Washington Dulles Revision of planned operational aircraft
27MAR16 – 03JUL16 Daily A330-300 (Previous plan: April A330-200/777-200ER, May/June 777-200ER)
eff 04JUL16 772 Day x246 333 Day 246 (Previous plan: Daily 777-200ER)
- Amsterdam – Xiamen Planned 787-9 replaces 777-200ER remains unchanged for this 3 weekly flights. However, Day 7/1 operates with 777-200ER from 27MAR16 to 25APR16 on temporary basis
In short, revised Boeing 787-9 destination in Northern summer 2016 season includes:
Amsterdam – Abu Dhabi – Bahrain
Amsterdam – Cape Town
Amsterdam – Chengdu
Amsterdam – Delhi
Amsterdam – Dubai
Amsterdam – Hangzhou
Amsterdam – Osaka Kansai
Amsterdam – Rio de Janeiro
Amsterdam – Sao Paulo
Amsterdam – Toronto
Amsterdam – Xiamen
Previously reported changes:
- Amsterdam – Bogota – Cali – Amsterdam Service increase from 3 to 4 weekly, 777-200ER service
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