Get booking: Premium Comfort from KLM now available

KLM's new cabin class offerings could be coming to South Africa soon. Photo: Atsushi Yoshioka / flickr

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ new Premium Comfort class is now available for bookings. Here’s where they’re flying to…

KLM’s new cabin class offerings could be coming to South Africa sooner than expected. Photo: Atsushi Yoshioka / flickr

KLM’s new class could be heading to South Africa ‘soon’

KLM’s premium comfort class cabins have officially gone on sale, with the first equipped aircraft having flown from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to New York-JFK on 27 August 27.

As reported by travel news, bookings are now open, but only on certain early routes and South Africa might be among them.

According to the schedule, by the end of September this month, the new cabin will be available on Boeing 787-10 flights between Amsterdam and New York-JFK, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nairobi, and Kilimanjaro/Dar es Salaam. And then by the end of 2022, Premium Comfort will be available on all Boeing 787-9 aircraft. 

Travel News has claimed that a source has revealed that at least some of the Cape Town services could include the Premium Economy cabin from December this year.

In a previous statement, Wilson Tauro, Country Manager for the Southern African Region at Air France KLM said that they were very excited for the launch of the Premium Comfort.

“We strive to give our South African travellers the best in-flight experience and we look forward to having both our business and leisure travellers experience this game-changing new offering soon.” Tauro said.

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What passengers can expect on Premium Comfort Class

The Premium Class is entirely new, in that it has its own cabin, offering a new type of seat as well as distinctive service and catering concepts.

Catering concepts on intercontinental flights will include:

One or two hot meals (depending on the duration of the flight),
A choice of meat, fish or vegetarian dishes,
Coffee, tea, liqueur and ice cream post-meal and
A variety of snacks and cocktails between meals

In terms of comfort, passengers can expect:

Wider seats, offering more leg-room,
A larger screen and a footrest and
Elegant and lighter seats that are more reclinable than regular economy

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