Source: www.insidecostarica.com
KLM Royal Dutch airlines, in partnership with COPA airlines, is offering flights from the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport to European destination with a stop in Panama and Schiphol, Amsterdam.
The airline will be providing five flights a week: Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (no flights are offered on Mondays and Saturdays).
Flights from San José to Rome, Italy, for instance are being offered for as low as us$1,055, including taxes and surcharges (see print out of reservation pricing).
Through the COPA alliance and code sharing, travel between Costa Rica and Europe can be made without having to go through the US.
KLM is owned by AirFrance-KLM, a European airline holding company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Tremblay-en-France, France, near Paris.
Both Air France and KLM are members of the SkyTeam airline alliance. They offer a frequent flyer program called Flying Blue. The company's namesake airlines rely on two major hubs: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, near Paris, and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, near Amsterdam.
Air France-KLM was created by the mutually-agreed merger between Air France and Netherlands-based KLM on 5 May 2004.
More information on flights from Costa Rica, visit the KLM Panama website at: _ http://www.klm.com/travel/pa_en/index.htm_