The airline will take advantage of the summer season to extend the dates of its flights to Costa Rica
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will extend its operations to Costa Rica for six more weeks until May 8, 2023, thus extending its summer season.
The frequencies of the three weekly flights will be on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the traditional route Amsterdam - San José-Liberia-Amsterdam, arriving at the Juan Santamaría Airport at 12:10 pm and leaving for Liberia at 1:50 pm Said
flight it will remain triangulated to the Guanacaste Airport and will depart for the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam (Netherlands) during the afternoon of the scheduled days, minutes before approximately 6 pm.
The flights will be operated on a Boeing 777-200, with a capacity of 305 passengers, according to data from the airline.
“This news from the KLM company confirms the good moment that Costa Rica is experiencing in the European market. Let's remember that the Amsterdam hub, from where the Netherlands airline operates, is one of the most important connections in the European region," said Hermes Navarro, head of investment attraction at the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT).
KLM is also evaluating carrying out a "mini-season" of flights to take advantage of the holidays in Europe, between August and September 2023. From January to October of
this year, 23,317 tourists have visited our country from the Netherlands by air, that is, In other words, almost 95% of the figures for 2019, being the fifth source market for travelers from Europe.