Dutch air carrier KLM Royal Airlines announced in a statement dated November 16 it opened a new triangular liaison connecting Amsterdam to Freetown in Sierra Leone and Monrovia in Liberia.

The firm which is a member of the SkyTeam alliance will offer starting from March 29, 2017 three flights a week from its Amsterdam-Schiphol base to the Freetown-Lungi airport and to the Monrovia-Roberts airport. The flights will be operated with Airbus A330-200 planes which can receive 243 passengers (30 in the business class, 35 in Premium and 178 in Standard class).

Departures from Netherlands are scheduled for Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 2:35 PM and planes will land at 7:30 PM in Sierra Leone, take off at 8:40 PM and arrive in Monrovia at 9:55 PM. Return flights will depart at 11:20 PM and land in Amsterdam at 8:10 AM the next day.

With the new liaison included, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will be serving thirteen destinations in Africa.

“In this way, we will strengthen our position in Africa considerably and offer our passengers an even greater choice,” said President and CEO of KLM, Pieter Elbers, in the statement.

The eleven other airports served by KLM across the continent are in Windhoek (Namibia), Luanda (Angola), Johannesburg (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es-Salaam and Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Entebbe (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda), Lagos (Nigeria) and Accra (Ghana).