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GARUDA has extended the AMS ground time of its new JKT-DXB-AMS-DXB-JKT flight which starts on Wednesday 2 June 2010 as follows: OLD Arrival and Departure times - Amsterdam Schiphol: - arr. 08.00 GA 88 JKT A330-200 Daily - dep. 10.00 GA 89 JKT A330-200 Daily NEW Schedule: - arr. 08.00 GA 88 JKT A330-...

KLM has released a new Summer 2010 timetable for the route AMS-DXB-AMS in response to the arrival of Emirates (May 2010) and GARUDA (June 2010) on the route. Instead of reducing capacity, KLM has elected to increase both passenger and freight capacity to DXB through the use of larger aircraft (B747-...

Today Amsterdam Schiphol has the honour of handling the last ever NW operated flights, as Northwest flights stopped operating under their own call-sign on 30 January 2010. This means NW departures of 30 Jan. that arrive in AMS on 31 Jan. are the final NW flights ever. Last NW Arrivals - 31 January 2...

- 10.00 hours - Due to intense snow showers at 09.30 hours, over 7 aircraft are holding at Dronten and a further 3 at Hellevoetsluis, while 4 aircraft from the UK/Ireland are holding over the North Sea west of Zandvoort.

- 10.15 RWY 36R has now been opened and stacks are being guided to approach.

China Airlines has amended its schedule for Summer 2010. The daily B747-400 frequency on Taipei – Bangkok – Amsterdam-BKK-TPE will be reduced to 6 weekly in May/Jun 2010: - 02MAY10 – 08MAY10 = No Wednesday departure - 10MAY10 – 15MAY10 = No Monday departure - 16MAY10 – 12JUN10 = No Wednesday departure

KLM/Martinair operated a B747-400ERF relief flight for Haiti yesterday, the aircraft returns this morning via Curacao:

- arr. 06:50 Santo Domingo KL 0152 Boeing 747-400ERF PH-CKB

Warning from about 13.35 this afternoon AMS expects lots of snow, rain, or ice and possibly all three of them.

AMS Thu 28 Jan:

- arr. 10.50 Nairobi CLX 7153 B747-400F dep. 12.10

- dep. 13:00 Izmir CC 0230 B747-200F

As this is the AMS Forum, herewith the UK-Eindhoven & UK-Rotterdam passenger markets in 2009 just for reference: Aer Lingus - LGW-EIN-LGW 2009 - pax/month and pax/flight: - jan-09 0,0 - feb-09 0,0 - mrt-09 0,0 - apr-09 0,0 - mei-09 0,0 - jun-09 0,0 - jul-09 0,0 - aug-09 0,0 - sep-09 0,0 - okt-09 0,0...

This report in CH-Aviation may explain the 100% increase in AMS slots requested by Olympic Aviation: Macedonian Airlines (Thessaloniki) is reportedly going to be revived by Olympic Air (OA/Athens) later this year as a Thessaloniki based subsidiary specialising in point to point flights from Thessalo...

It has been over a year since regular scheduled KLM flights were operated to MST:

- dep. 11:10 KL7331 Maastricht
- arr. 13.35 KL7331 Maastricht

SQ Cargo operates two rather special B747-400F flights over the last two Mondays of January 2010. The flights are routed from Amsterdam to Singapore via Buenos Aires and Johannesburg !!

- SQ7961 19-Jan-10 29-Jan-10 AMS - SIN dep. 22:05 arr. 14:40+3 74Y - Via BUE, JNB - Monday

China Southern in SkyTeam livery today according to Casper:

= B-2056 B777-200ER arr. 18.00 hrs

On 24 January 2010 Delta has transitioned all NW flights to DL flights in the reservation systems. Flights operated upto 31 January remain NW flights, from 1 February AMS will see DL flights only. From 1 February: - AMS 08:00 DTW 10:35 DL 272 A333 - AMS 10:50 DTW 13:30 DL 243 A333 - AMS 14:40 DTW 17...

Herewith an overview of the AMS <-> UK passenger market in 2009. The year 2009 has been a disastrous year for Schiphol's most important market the United Kingdom. Historically the UK is the largest passenger market for AMS and the economic crisis has hit demand for air travel very hard. Total Market...