I have a question though....where are all these aircraft comng from.
The AMS-JRO-DAR-AMS flight will become a MD-11 thus one 767 was "unemployed" for 5 days of the week.
On the other hand I think that SNBA is in a good position: good prices, good service, good connection out from US even if through AMS there are more
I don't see how SN can offer better connections ex US. The AMS-EBB flight will leave AMS during the 10:00 - 11:00 peak thus ideal for connecting ex US (arrivals between 07:00 and 08:00). Moreover, unlike SN, KL is able to offer a very quick transfer ex EBB as the first US flight leaves at 08:20 from AMS (the EBB will probably arrive somewhere around 05:30). Needlaess to say BA still offers the best connections.
BTW it's still unclear with which (or if) city this flight will be combined. I guess that ADD is the most likely candidate as it's close to EBB (NBO is probably not a possibility as they have enough traffic on AMS-NBO-AMS)
BTW with the exception of the Sunday flight bot other EBB flights will be on days that both BA and SNBA don't fly to EBB (BA and SNBA fly the same days of the week to EBB). KLM will fly on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday (at least that's what they intend) and BA and SNBA will fly on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday during the winter schedule 2005/6
seems KLM's role in the AF-KL merger is to focus on Africa, while AF is stronger in S-America.
KLM's role is to fly to the non-French colonial countries in Africa whilst AF flies to the French speaking African countries. NBO, ADD and EBB are clear examples of this and no doubt they intend to make liffe for SNBA a little bit harder by adding EBB.
