Air France-KLM add more flights to Porto Airport starting this August

Air France-KLM airline announces resumption of flights to Porto Airport, with three times more flights starting in August. In a statement, the company advances that KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines will increase the flight offer to and from Portugal; thus, the 42 weekly flights operated in July, will increase to 70 this August. 

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport is among the company's flight resumption route on the European network with KLM offering three time more flights to Porto Airport, which shows a faster recovery than Lisbon Airport, according to Eurocontrol data, which is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.

KLM will gradually reopen the Porto-Amsterdam-Schiphol route, which will offer 14 weekly flights, instead of the current four flights a week.

The Dutch company resumption programme for Porto Airport features aircrafts that stop the night at the airport, which enables early morning departures and more opportunities to connect to the European and international network in Amsterdam-Schiphol.

Concurrently, Air France (Air France merged with KLM Group) announced that the liaison Porto-Paris-CDG, which resumed on 6th June with three weekly flights, is back to being a daily flight connection on 18th June, and again, on 13th July, the company resumed two daily flights.

In addition to the triple offer of services in Porto, the Air France-KLM Group announced that flight offer will also increase in Lisbon and in Faro.

In total, there will be circa 160 weekly flights operated to the three Portuguese Airports, and taking into account the pandemic evolution.

KLM has announced that wearing face masks will be compulsory on its flights. Passengers must wear masks when boarding flights and while on board, with "passengers being responsible for providing their own masks."

KLM also announced that their crews will be using PPE and cleaning and disinfection procedures both in airport space and in aircrafts will be enhanced.