Sister carriers Air France and KLM are expanding their winter schedules to offer a combined total of 236 destinations during the season, which runs from 26 October to 28 March 2026.

Air France is adding new long-haul routes from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Phuket in Thailand and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, as well as continuing flights from Paris to Orlando and Riyadh into the winter season.

The carrier¡¯s short-haul seasonal routes from Paris to Cork and Verona will also be extended throughout the winter season.

Meanwhile KLM is boosting seat capacity this winter by 6 per cent year-on-year as it offers flights to 161 destinations. New destinations from its Amsterdam Schiphol hub include Kittil? in Finland and Barbados?in the Caribbean.

The Dutch carrier¡¯s expansion includes a major increase in capacity to India, with the number of seats rising by 28 per cent compared with last winter. This includes the airline¡¯s new route from Schiphol to Hyderabad, which launched on 2 September.

KLM is also adding more frequencies on long-haul routes from Schiphol to key cities such as Delhi, Bangalore, Bangkok, Boston, Miami, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Lima.

Direct flights from Amsterdam to San Diego in California, which launched in summer 2025, are also due to restart in late February 2026.?

The airline¡¯s short-haul destinations such as Naples, Athens, Bordeaux, Gothenburg, Poznan, Cork, Leeds and Vienna will see added frequencies this winter as well. While routes from Schiphol to Exeter and Ljubljana, which launched this summer, will continue into the winter season.