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Northwest Airlines, KLM to expand services

CHENNAI: Alliance partners, Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, have announced an increase in services in India from October 29. The expansion of Northwest flights and retiming of KLM's services will offer more capacity and conv enient non-stop services from Amsterdam to Delhi and Mumbai, according to a press release.

Northwest currently operates three weekly flights from KLM's Amsterdam hub to Delhi and four weekly flights from Amsterdam to Mumbai. KLM operates from Amsterdam to Delhi on the other four days, of which one flight continues to Calcutta and to Mumbai on the other three days.

According to the new schedule, Northwest will operate a daily service to both Delhi and Mumbai. KLM will continue to operate four weekly flights to Delhi and three to Mumbai, but will retime six of the flights from mid-morning to mid-afternoon departure from Amsterdam. The Saturday flight to Delhi/Calcutta will remain at its current timings.

``The new schedule will result in a 50 per cent frequency increase in services between North America and India,'' says the release, quoting Mr Philip Haan, Northwest Executive Vice President - international, sales and information services. -- Our B ureau