KLM will cancel 10 to 12 p.c of European flights in September and October


There at the moment are 8086 scheduled European flights departing from Schiphol for September. Earlier, there have been 9164 flights within the techniques for that month, in response to an outline of Aeroroutes based mostly on GDS knowledge. For October, the variety of intra-European flights from Schiphol has been lowered from 8832 to 7916. This protects about 100,000 seats per 30 days per route.

In absolute numbers, September will see the deepest lower within the variety of flights to London Heathrow. As an alternative of the beforehand deliberate ten instances a day, subsequent month KLM will ‘solely’ fly to this airport about seven instances a day. One flight per day is canceled to the opposite London airport to which KLM flies, London Metropolis.

Capability limitation
When Schiphol introduced two weeks in the past {that a} capability limitation may also be imposed for September and October, as a result of employees scarcity at safety, KLM indicated that no flights needed to be cancelled. It’s not clear why it has now been deleted. KLM has not but responded to questions on this from Luchtvaartnieuws.