KLM CARGO TO EXPAND CAPACITY THIS WINTER

More intensive deployment of KLM’s Boeing 747 Combi aircraft fleet will substantially add to KLM Cargo’s intercontinental air freighting capacity this coming winter season, beginning Sunday, October 29, 2000.

The number of 747 Combi flights operated weekly will rise from the current 90 to 99. The winter schedule is valid through Saturday, March 31, 2001.

In addition, KLM Cargo will expand the Boeing 747 Special Freighter services between Amsterdam and Osaka from two to three flights weekly. This additional service represents the latest step in the growing cooperation with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA). KLM’s Amsterdam hub is NCA’s major European point of entry, and the two cargo carriers have operated joint air freighting services to and from Japan since 1988, making this one of the world’s longest standing and fruitful air cargo alliances. With the added Osaka flight, the two airlines will operate total eleven full freighter flights weekly between Japan and the Netherlands, providing European customers with a wide choice of destinations in Japan and high-frequency service.

KLM Cargo will serve Seoul with Boeing 747 Combi equipment this winter, replacing the current Special Freighter service.

The number of flights operated with Boeing 747 Combi equipment on major intercontinental routes will rise substantially. On the New York route, KLM will increase the frequency of its Combi flights from seven to 13 weekly. Daily Combi service will be introduced on the routes between Amsterdam and Mexico City (currently five flights weekly), Hong Kong (currently six flights weekly), Kuala Lumpur (currently four flights weekly). Sao Paulo will be served by an extra Combi flight, raising frequency from three to four weekly.

Combi flights on the Amsterdam - Singapore - Sydney route will be reduced from two to one flights weekly. The current three full freighter flights weekly on the Amsterdam - Singapore - Penang route and the daily Combi flight serving Singapore and Jakarta will be maintained in the winter season.

KLM is the world’s largest operator of Combi aircraft, fully geared towards cargo customers’ needs with a highly flexible service, offering main deck capacity on a greater choice of routes with greater frequency of service than most other carriers operating full freighters in combination with all-passenger aircraft.