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Originally Posted by CastleScott
^ I wonder if and when KLM will announce Denver service? Is Swiss Air in Denver yet?
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First, the nonstop flight to/from Denver-Zurich will technically be with Edelweiss Air. From Wiki (not sure always about their reliability but here goes... ), Edelweiss was a separate airline for many years, and then about 2008, their operating rights (whatever that can mean?) was sold (done with all sorts of odd exchanges) to Swiss International Air Lines. At the time of the Swiss acquisition, Swiss was owned by Lufthansa - Lufthansa being Germany's premier airline as well as one of the largest and quite prestigious airlines in the world. So.... maybe can one conclude that Lufthansa - by way of Swiss International Air Lines, and then by way of Edelweiss Air - is just adding a couple of more weekly flights at Denver? Anyhows.... officially it will be Edelweiss Air as the carrier of the twice weekly nonstop DEN-ZRH flights when they start in July, 2018.
Next, Denver-Amsterdam nonstop, as explained well in above post, will probably not happen anytime soon with KLM because of the airline "politics" involved. Alliances, revenue sharing, etc. are all in play. And quite as counter-intuitive it would seem, a DEN-AMS nonstop route on KLM would be quite anti-competitive of sorts, because the competition is between the Denver and Salt Lake City hubs, and the alliances that each airport supports. Basically same reason as to why Air France most likely will not have a Denver-Paris nonstop - so that would be that.
Lastly, as Norwegian Air will start nonstop DEN-LGW (London Gatwick airport) flights and then DEN-CDG (Paris Charles de Gaulle airport) nonstop flights, maybe Norwegian can also start twice weekly or so DEN-AMS nonstop flights? No airline politics there. But... both LGW (especially) and CDG are large hubs for Norwegian, while AMS flights are quite few on Norwegian.... but who knows? Also, there's another airline called ArkeFly (I think that's the right name) based in AMS and maybe this carrier could possibly find profit with a less-than-daily (maybe seasonal?) DEN-AMS nonstop.
One could think that the two marijuana capitals of the world would have nonstop airline traffic demand? But.... total Denver-Amsterdam air traffic just isn't too demanding at this time.