Dutch air carrier KLM has decided to stop flying to Georgia due to low profitability, a Georgian official said Friday.
"We have received notification from a company official," said Georgy Mzhavanadze, head of the civil aviation department at the Georgian Ministry of Economic Development. "KLM analyzed the results of its business in Georgia in 2005 and decided that they did not meet the estimates calculated two years ago."
KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, was founded on October 7, 1919 and is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name.
The company started operating in Georgia in 2003 and currently has three regular flights on the Amsterdam-Tbilisi-Amsterdam route. The final KLM flight to Georgia is scheduled for March 23, 2006.
