1st of Austin’s 6 new intercontinental flights this 12 months can take off nowadays

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Bergstrom is having a very little a lot more international.

A new nonstop route to Amsterdam normally takes off Monday evening, with airport officers and KLM Royal Dutch Airways hosting a celebration to commemorate it.

The airline — the flag carrier of the Netherlands — will fly the new route three moments a 7 days, on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The flights are overnight, taking off from Austin at 6 p.m. and landing in Amsterdam at 10:25 the next morning.

Return flights consider off at 12:40 p.m. area time and land at 4:10 p.m. in Austin. The time zone variation involving Austin and Amsterdam is 7 several hours.

Flights ended up originally scheduled to get started in May 2020, but had been delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“AUS is fired up to lastly launch nonstop support to Amsterdam,” claimed Jacqueline Yaft, the airport’s CEO. “Offering direct provider to European cities is a huge precedence for AUS and this is a milestone we’ve been eager to meet due to the fact Could of 2020.”

Amsterdam was previously identified as a precedence route for the airport. In January 2021, the city of Austin accepted featuring incentives to airlines which brought in new routes, primarily these thought of a top rated precedence.

In addition to Amsterdam, Beijing, Dublin, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo were being highlighted as priorities. Nonstop flights to Hawaii were also prioritized, leading to Hawaiian Airways starting off an Austin-Honolulu route in April 2021.

The new Amsterdam route is not the only intercontinental nonstop getting introduced in 2022. So much, 5 other routes have been introduced:

• Lufthansa will fly to Frankfurt, Germany, commencing April 8. This route was suspended in March 2020 for the reason that of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Air Canada will fly to Vancouver, Canada, beginning June 1.
• American Airways will fly to Cozumel, Mexico, and Montego Bay, Jamaica, commencing June 11. Southwest Airlines will also fly to Cozumel starting the exact same working day.
• Spirit Airways will fly to Monterrey, Mexico, beginning June 22.

In addition, Virgin Atlantic introduced it will start out flights to London Heathrow on Could 25. The route is currently made available by British Airways.

Ten intercontinental routes are presently supplied out of AUS, four of which are in Mexico. Prior to the Amsterdam route, London was the only European metropolis served straight from Austin.