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Wizz to expand Gdansk base with two more routes Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is to open two new services from its Polish base at Gdansk, and station a third aircraft there. Wizz is to open services to Bergamo, near Milan, and the Dutch city of Eindhoven from 17 December. Bergamo will be ...

Delta/Northwest are planning the following aircraft changes from September:

Route - Current - Effective - NEW aircraft

Atlanta - Amsterdam NW 333 01SEP09 new = NW 332 daily

Amsterdam - Mumbai DL 767 03SEP09 new = NW 332 daily

Continental Airlines plans to reduce its 2x/day frequency on AMS-EWR to 1x/daily earlier then normal (winter schedule), it will now commence starting Tuesday 15 September; - AMS dep. 09:15 - EWR arr. 11:40 757 CO 103 Non-Stop until 14 September - AMS dep. 09:15 - EWR arr. 11:40 762 CO 103 Non-Stop f...

And......easyJet increases MXP-AMS-MXP to 3x/daily:

- arr. 09.05 - dep. 09.30
- arr. 15.50 - dep. 16.15 NEW frequency
- arr. 20.05 - dep. 20.30

Abolishing the ticket tax is positive for the NL economy with at least 4x new daily easyjet services.

IBERIA will operate a high summer season Sunday only service to Madrid until 16 August:

arr. 16.45 - dep. 17:35 IB 3247 Madrid A320

Codeshare JAL arr. 16.45 JL 5320 - dep. 17:35 JL 5321 Madrid A320

On Monday 29 June the KLM Peak Summer Schedule 2009 commences with additional daily flights on typical high demand holiday routes such as:

- ATH
- IST
- LIS
- MAD

but lower frequencies on business routes to Scandinavia and elsewhere.

The normal summer schedule returns on Monday 24 August.

DELTA Airlines has announced suspension of the summer only service from Cincinnatti to AMS with B757, seasonal service ex CVG ends August 15, last departure ex. AMS August 16.

Martinair will re-open AMS-Orlando this winter season, 3x times weekly with B767-300ER.

- MP635 AMS dep. 1330 - 1745arr. MCO 763 146
- MP636 MCO dep. 1945 - 1005 arr. AMS 763 146

Below a quote from an interview with the Managing Director of GARUDA, offering first indications that GARUDA may be returning to Amsterdam soon" Garuda also has Boeing 777-300ERs on order for first delivery in 2010. These are to be used for services to Europe and the USA but Satar says "We plan to s...

Continental Airlines will leave SKYTEAM on 25 October 2009. This will result in a reduction of CO flights and codesharing via Amsterdam, as CO commences its membership of STAR ALLIANCE and opens FRA as its primary European hub. From 25 October 2009 the 2x CO flights at AMS will be: - Arr. 08.00 AMS ...

Winter Schedule 09/10: ArkeFly to Nepal.

From 25OCT09 Arkefly plans to operate a 1x weekly service to Kathmandu in Nepal.

- Sunday OR463 AMS dep. 2335 - arr. 1550 KTM 767-300
- Tuesday OR464 KTM dep. 1210 - arr. 2120 AMS 767-300

At 17.17 an arriving KLM B747-400 made a low pass over the Buitenveldertbaan, possibly to check its landing configuration.

China Airlines reduces TPE - Amsterdam - TPE flights in June 2009: China Airlines is reducing Taipei - Bangkok - Amsterdam service with B744 from Daily to 4 weekly (Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun departure from AMS) from 07JUN09 to 07JUL09. EVA Air is also reducing frequency by not operating TPE-AMS-TPE on 9/10...

Tarom to codeshare with KLM Romanian flag-carrier Tarom is integrating itself more closely with the SkyTeam alliance through a codeshare with KLM. The agreement, says KLM, will come into effect from 1 June. Tarom will begin a daily Bucharest-Amsterdam service on 6 June and the codeshare will apply t...

TAP Air Portugal is planning the following flight reductions starting 10 September 2009:

- TP658/659 flight cancelled Porto-AMS-Porto = a reduction from 2x daily to 1x daily flights.

- TP662/667 frequency LIS-AMS-LIS (overnight stop) reduced from 7 to 2 weekly (Wed/Sat departures from LIS only)