KLM Launches Space Campaign

KLM has launched a promotional campaign – ‘Claim your place in Space’ – encouraging its customers to support Space Expedition Corporation, a revolutionary space project that aims to launch the first commercial space trip from Curacao as of 1 January 2014.
 The campaign, launched on www.klm.com/space, offers participants the chance to win a real space flight. Participating is easy. On the 22nd of April, KLM will launch a special high altitude balloon from the Nevada desert in the US.
It carries cameras and a GPS to monitor and follow its exact progress into space. As the balloon approaches space, it expands and eventually pops, its load floating back to earth on a parachute. Before KLM launches the balloon, participants can predict online, where the balloon will reach its highest point.
The most accurate prediction of this place in space will win a flight for two to Curacao, a stay at one of Curacao’s luxury hotels, and a unique space flight for one, aboard the SXC Lynx spaceship. With this campaign, KLM supports SXC in finding a way to make space accessible in a responsible, sustainable manner, promoting new technologies.

KLM Introduces Daily Uganda Flights

According to eturbonews.com, KLM in Kampala has announced a move to begin daily flights on the Entebbe–Amsterdam route, effective 5 April of this year. KLM will be the first European airline to fly daily to Entebbe, via Kigali. This comes shortly after British Airways announced the withdrawal of their flights to Dar es Salaam, a destination that KLM flies to daily via Kilimanjaro, while the Dutch national airline also flies double daily, in conjunction with Kenya Airways under a partnership codeshare arrangement, to Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. The announcement is a warning shot for Emirates and Qatar who have daily flights to Entebbe, and also SkyTeam’s competitors, such as oneWorld, represented by British Airways, and Star Alliance, represented by Brussels Airlines, which from the summer schedule onwards will fly four times a week between Brussels and Entebbe, also via Kigali.