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Salt Lake City International Airport is about to become a little more international.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced Tuesday that it will begin offering flights between Amsterdam and Salt Lake City beginning May 5.

Initially, the flights will be offered twice a week on Thursdays and Saturdays. Frequency will increase to three times per week, including Mondays, beginning July 4.

The new KLM flights will supplement the existing daily flight in the summer between Salt Lake City and Amsterdam operated by Delta Air Lines in partnership with Air France KLM (a Franco-Dutch holding company formed by the merger of Air France and KLM).

KLM noted that because of its flight-sharing partnership with Delta, its new flights to Salt Lake City's Delta hub will offer European travelers seamless connections to more than 50 North American destinations.

"KLM's network is developing progressively offering more capacity and wonderful new destinations," Harm Kruelen, director of KLM Netherlands, said in a press release.

He said the new route to Salt Lake City — plus another route announced Tuesday to the Spanish island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea — "will enable us to offer even better service to business and leisure travelers."

The new KLM flights will use an Airbus A330-200. It will offer 30 seats in World Business Class, 178 seats in Economy Class, and 35 seats in Economy Comfort — which offer an extra 4 inches of legroom, double-reclining seats and priority de-boarding.

From May 5 through June 18 and from Sept. 8 to Oct. 29, flights will depart from Amsterdam at 10:20 a.m. and arrive in Salt Lake City at 12:40 p.m. Return flights will depart from Salt Lake City at 2:50 p.m. and arrive in Amsterdam at 8:20 a.m. the next day.

From June 23 through Sept. 5, flights will depart from Amsterdam at 12:30 p.m. and arrive in Salt Lake City at 2:50 p.m. Return flights will leave at 4:50 p.m. and arrive in Amsterdam at 10:20 a.m. the next day.

European destinations from Salt Lake City — all on Delta — have included Paris, plus seasonal flights to London and Amsterdam.

Other international non-stop flights out of Salt Lake City include Calgary and Vancouver in Canada, and the Mexican destinations of Cancun, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta.