KLM and Delta begin codesharing
SkyTeam partners KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Delta Air Lines have started codesharing to destinations from their Amsterdam, Atlanta and New York JFK hubs this week.
Initially, KLM plans to codeshare on Delta flights to 14 US destinations from Atlanta (Birmingham, Nashville, Charlotte, Charleston, Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Greenville, Kahului (Hawaii), Kansas City, Miami, Orlando, Raleigh, San Antonio and Tampa), as well as between New York’s JFK and Atlanta.
KLM intends to grow the number of codeshare services across Delta’s network.
Delta plans to codeshare on KLM flights to 10 European destinations via Amsterdam (Stockholm, Warsaw, Hamburg, Oslo, Bucharest, Gothenburg, Hanover, Nuremberg, Birmingham and Helsinki).
Delta intends to grow its codeshare services across KLM’s network, pending foreign government approvals.
Arend de Jong, KLM’s senior vice president Network said: “Our ability to add codes on Delta flights complements our existing codeshare services with our other US SkyTeam partners Northwest and Continental.”
By Bev Fearis
Related News Stories:
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
Woman dies after getting ‘entangled’ in baggage carousel
Dozens fall ill in P&O Cruises ship outbreak
Turkish Airlines flight in emergency landing after pilot dies
Boy falls to death on cruise ship
BA pilot dies during layover