Despite the fact that Schiphol has been at the ceiling for the number of permitted takeoffs and landings for some time, KLM managed to transport almost 3 percent more passengers last year, according to the transport figures published on Thursday.
The total amounted to a record number of 35.1 million. That KLM was able to grow is due, among other things, to a higher occupancy rate; more seats were sold per aircraft. This led to almost 90 percent of KLM’s aircraft being filled.
According to a company spokesperson, KLM has also scrapped and swapped bad-end destinations for destinations that attract more travelers. KLM now flies to 171 destinations from Schiphol. “We have also optimized the fleet.” KLM has looked closely at which aircraft are deployed on which routes.
With Transavia, which is also part of the KLM Group, 9.2 million passengers flew. That is a whopping 4.4 percent more than a year earlier. Transavia flies not only from Schiphol but also from the regional airports of Eindhoven and Rotterdam. The planes at Transavia were as full in 2019 as the year before.
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