KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will launch the first non-stop flight route between Amsterdam and Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport on May 8th this year.

Three flights are available weekly. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, the Flight KL881 will take off from Hangzhou to Amsterdam and arrive on the same day. Meanwhile, the flight to Hangzhou will be set on every Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays and arrive the next day. Boeing 777-200 will provide the services to 318 passengers on board.

KLM:

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the national airline of the Netherlands and is part of Air France-KLM. KLM's headquarters is in Amstelveen near its hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. KLM operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 90 destinations. It is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name. It has 33,000 employees.

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport is the principal airport serving Hangzhou, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region of the People's Republic of China and the provincial capital of Zhejiang.

The airport is built upon the southern shore of Qiantang River in the Xiaoshan district and is 27 kilometers away from downtown Hangzhou.

In 2009, the Hangzhou airport handled 14,944,716 passengers and became the 9th busiest airport in China. In addition, the airport was the country's 8th busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic and the 10th busiest airport in terms of traffic movements.

By Xie Fang