KLM into the Caribbean and South America

The Caribbean and Ecuador are being focussed upon as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is performing a robust expansion into the region and the northern part of South America.  The airline is re-organising its flights for next winter to give a non-stop operation to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, three times per week, which then continues on to Guayaquil the country’s largest city and main port.

The new schedule gives nine flights per week from Schiphol to Curaçao, the island a Dutch colony, daily to Bonaire, another leftover from Dutch colonial times and three times weekly to both Aruba and St Maarten, still de facto colonies.

With the Ecuador flights a Boeing 777-300 will be used, whilst for the four islands under the Dutch crown it will be a mixture Boeing 747-400s and MD-11s. www.klm.com

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