KLM no longer serves Arusha out of AMS. Used to be able to connect through Detroit Metro via Northworst to AMS and then down. No longer. How're people getting there?

Since when or starting when? I know they're still scheduling them now.

It must have been a sudden change in schedule.

My son & I traveled roundtrip Texas to Arusha via KLM last month. These were our flights:

October 17, 2008:
DFW - AMS; KLM A330
AMS - JRO; KLM B777

October 31, 2008:
JRO - DAR - AMS; KLM B777
AMS - DTW; NWA A330
DTW - DFW; NWA Some kind of Embraer

Total roundtrip airfare, including a MAF - DFW and DFW - MAF connection via AA, was $2600 each.

All these flights were pretty much full.

When we first booked these flights last July, the return AMS-DFW was supposed to be nonstop, but a change was made to our schedule about a month prior to our trip which had us routed through Detroit. We had to re-do our firearms paperwork with Dutch customs because of this. Not a big deal, however.

Fred,

You're probably looking at Arusha Airport - instead of Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) - If you do a search on AMS-JRO you should find the KLM service is still a goer.

Fred:

I just bought my ticket from Memphis to JRO via AMS a few weeks ago. I haven't heard anything about the cancellation of the AMS-JRO flight.
Hope that it's not true because KLM is about the only western airline that is (or was) flying in to JRO.

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Originally posted by shakari:
Fred,

You're probably looking at Arusha Airport - instead of Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) - If you do a search on AMS-JRO you should find the KLM service is still a goer.

Right you are, Steve. Kili was what I was looking for. I feel awfully stupid on occasion, and this is one of those occasions...

Kin' 'ell Fred, call yourself a pilot!

Not any more, I guess...

Once a pilot, always a pilot. It just makes you a pilot that doesn't fly at the moment....... but you still could if you had to.

Although in your case, apparently if you did, you might get lost!

Yeah, it's like riding a bicycle... Couldn't guarantee a greaser on the first landing, though...

Hey Fred,

I'm 110% sure your worst ever landing would still be a whole lot better than my best ever landing. - Mine are always tucking ferrible.

Any one you can walk away from is a good one...

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Originally posted by jetdrvr:
Any one you can walk away from is a good one...

I wish I could convince my Mrs of that, she's shit scared of my flying and climbs the walls when I'm landing.

Come to think of it, she's not even usually very happy with my driving!

It's like shooting, Steve. Practice, practice, practice.

Everybody bounces one now and then. I set a Herc down in Charleston so hard once I thought I broke the wing.

Yup, I'm sure that's my problem........ I just don't have the time to do as much of it as I need to do.

When walking off a Delta flight in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago I commented to the pilot standing in the cockpit door "OK three wire" I think he understood that it was NOT a compliment.

Yeah, Delta loves naval aviators. He probably was one of them.