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In January of each year, I post a review of the AMS-UK-AMS market developments over the past 12 months. As the United Kingdom is Schiphol most important market, it is interesting to see what is happening to individual routes. Herewith an overview of the AMS <-> UK passenger market in the year 2010. ...

KLM has now loaded its codeshare flight on the new China Southern CAN-AMS-CAN service into the reservations systems: - dep. 23:55 Guangzhou (CAN) - arr. 05:45 +1 Amsterdam (AMS) KL4300 duration: 11h 50 A332 - dep. 13:15 Schiphol (AMS) - arr. 05:50 +1 Guangzhou (CAN) KL4299 duration 10h 35 A332 Opera...

Lufthansa has announced a 24% increase in seat capacity on HAM-AMS-HAM with the introduction of CRJ900s on all flights: - HAM 07:00 AMS 08:00 LH 3334 CRJ900 Daily ex.Sun - HAM 15:20 AMS 16:20 LH 3336 CRJ900 Mon-Fri - HAM 18:40 AMS 19:40 LH 3338 CRJ900 Daily ex.Sat - AMS 08:35 HAM 09:30 LH 3335 CRJ90...

KLM has announced plans to introduce the B747-400M on the 4x/weekly service AMS-Chengdu-AMS in Summer 2011. The new schedule reduces the flying time by 40 min. out and 45 min. on the return flight, but maintains the 1,5 hour turnaround of the A330-200. - AMS dep. 17:05 - CTU arr. 09:00 KL 0891 A330...

The Alitalia reservation system now confirms the introduction of a new 3rd daily AZ A320 frequency LIN-AMS-LIN raising the total Skyteam frequency on this route to 5x/day, plus 3x/daily KL on AMS-MXP v.v.: - AMS 07:55 LIN 09:40 KL 1619 B737 daily - AMS 09:45 LIN 11:25 AZ 7905 A320 daily ex.Sun - AMS...

Olympic has released its new Summer schedule for 2011 which includes additional AMS flights: - ATH 05:00 - AMS 07:30 KL 1572 daily B737 - ATH 10:15 - AMS 12:55 OA 151 daily ex-Thu A320 - ATH 11:50 - AMS 14:20 HV 6868 daily B737 = NEW - ATH 17:10 - AMS 19:40 KL 1576 daily B737 - ATH 17:55 - AMS 20:35...

Air Baltic has now released the schedule for the new 2x/daily RIX-AMS-Riga schedule: - RIX 11:15 - AMS 12:40 BT 617 daily B735/733 - RIX 17:10 - AMS 19:00 BT 619 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun DH4 = NEW - AMS 13:15 - RIX 16:30 BT 618 daily B735/733 - AMS 19:30 - RIX 23:05 BT 620 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun DH4 = NEW

According to the most recent Summer 2011 schedules Alitalia will introduce a 2x/daily Florence-AMS-FLR service in competition with MeridianaFly: - FLR 06:55 - AMS 08:55 AZ 0114 A319 daily = NEW - FLR 07:25 - AMS 09:30 IG 0331 A319 Mon, Thu, Fri, Sun - FLR 16:35 - AMS 18:40 IG 0335 A319 daily - FLR 1...

KLM has reduced the number of flights to Milan Malpensa in Winter and Summer from 4x/day to just 3x/day. Milan Linate remains at 2x/day. - AMS 09:20 - MXP 11:00 KL 1623 cancelled - AMS 10:10 - MXP 11:50 KL 1623 new - AMS 11:40 - MXP 13:20 KL 1625 cancelled - AMS 15:15 - MXP 16:55 KL 1627 - AMS 20:35...

Vueling has now released its full Summer 2011 schedule, which contains 10 routes to AMS and 13 departures/day on certain days of the week. Barcelona increases to 4xflights/day with a new early departure, while many routes operate at a higher frequency: - AMS dep. 07.15 - BCN arr. 09.35 A320 daily - ...

Cathay Pacific has released a new Summer schedule in which CX271/270 HKG-AMS-HKG flight continues to CDG 3x/week:

- CX271 HKG 00:15 AMS 06:35 B744 daily
- CX271 AMS 08:45 CDG 10:00 B744 Tue, Thu, Sat

- CX270 CDG 11:45 AMS 12:50 B744 Tue, Thu, Sat
- CX270 AMS 14:00 HKG 07:05+1 B744 daily

Delta has made further changes to its Summer 2011 flight schedule: DTW-AMS-DTW: - 1x A330-300 - DL252/251 operated by Airbus A330-200 from 1 June - DL248/249 operated by Boeing 767-300 for entire Summer season - DL242/243 flight operates with A330-200 as DL056/057 to Mumbai until 31 May, thereafter ...

ELAL plans to operate 11x/week in Summer 2011:

- AMS dep. 11:10 - arr. TLV 16:45 LY 338 B738 Daily ex.Sat
- AMS dep. 17:00 - arr. TLV 22:30 AAN 411 A320 Mon
- AMS dep. 21:05 - arr. TLV 02:30 KL 0461 B739 Daily
- AMS dep. 22:10 - arr. TLV 03:45 LY 336 B738 Daily ex. Fri Sat

Vueling has now released its schedule for AMS-Zurich-AMS which will be launched on 14-Sept-2011, the route operates daily - ex. Thu 22 Sept: - AMS dep. 17.00 - arr. ZRH 18.15 VY A320 daily - ZRH dep. 18.55 - arr. AMS 20.10 VY A320 daily Vueling has also announced that the airline will not commence f...

Vueling has released the schedule for another new route 5x/week Palma-AMS-Palma de Mallorca: - dep. PMI 16.00 - arr. AMS 18.25 VY A320 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun - dep. AMS 19.00 - arr. PMI 21.15 VY A320 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun The route will be operated in competition with Air Berlin (daily) and Trans...