KLM to Launch Rio de Janeiro Link

Posted 17/06/2011

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has become the latest carrier to reveal plans to serve the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, following hot on the heels of other European, Middle East and Latin American carriers.  The national airline of the Netherlands will introduce a three times weekly service from Amsterdam on November 1, resurrecting a route it last served in the late 1990s.  Airlines are seeing a strong potential from the Brazilian market and with the country hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2106 a significant number of visitors are expected into the country.

KLM will be the sole operator on the route between the two cities, although a large amount of traffic from the Netherlands already flies to Rio de Janeiro via other European capitals and KLM’s existing daily link to Sao Paulo.  Approximately 34,000 O&D passengers travelled between the two airports in the past year with KLM accounting for just six per cent of this traffic.

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