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The world continues to dream of creating faster, more comfortable and, above all, more environmentally friendly aircraft. Supported by the Dutch airline KLM and the TU Delft, the Flying-V, a long-haul, highly energy-efficient aircraft, has made its first test flight. A success for the two protagonists behind the project. [link-block prefix="A...

COVID-19 weighed heavily on the Air France-KLM group's results in the first half of 2020. The number of passengers carried collapsed (-62% in the first half of 2020) while capacity fell by 53% for the group (including -89% in the second quarter alone). [link-block prefix="See also:" post="90597"] The losses are therefore...

A 56.6% fall in the number of passengers carried, traffic down 50.6%, a load factor down 20.5 pts: unsurprisingly, the figures published by the Air France-KLM group for March were largely impacted by the global spread of the Covid-19 virus. And this is certainly not because the...

KLM will operate only 10% of its originally scheduled summer timetable, but this will still represent 57 destinations, a record number compared to other European carriers. Intercontinental flights will only be operated by Boeing 777s and Boeing 787s, as the Dutch carrier has decided to ground its Boeing 747s. The airline will offer 69...

For Air France-KLM passengers doing business in South-East Asia, there has until now been the Skyteam alliance to cover this part of the world, thanks to cooperation agreements with alliance members Garuda Indonesia and Vietnam Airlines. From the end of December, passengers will benefit from a new alternative thanks to the signature of a new agreement with...

Benjamin Smith, CEO of the Air France-KLM group, accompanied by Anne Rigail, CEO of Air France, and Pieter Elbers, Chairman of the Management Board of KLM, explained in advance of a meeting with investors: "In a competitive and rapidly changing environment, the Air France-KLM group has everything it takes to regain its place...

"Committed to creating a more sustainable future for air transport", KLM has announced the abolition of one daily rotation between Brussels Zaventem and Amsterdam Schiphol airports from 29 March 2020, replaced by 25,600 seats in Premium or Standard classes on board Thalys TGVs. The Dutch company, which currently operates five routes between...

Already partners in the Skyteam alliance, and sharing codes for the past fifteen years, Air France KLM and Air Europa intend to go even further. The two groups have decided to join forces in a joint venture, the project for which is now awaiting approval from the competition authorities, in this case the...

Already partners in their loyalty programmes, Air France-KLM and Accor are going one step further by offering their loyal customers a dual reward system described as "unprecedented in the European travel sector". Since 20 June, loyal customers of these two major players in the French travel industry and Accor have...

The transatlantic route remains essential to the Air France-KLM group's network growth strategy, with 20 % of revenues generated in North America. Of the four new long-haul routes launched by Air France-KLM this summer, three have the United States as their destination. KLM...

Since Wednesday, the Dutch government's €744 million takeover of Air France-KLM (i.e. €14%) has generated a great deal of negative comment from the French government and media. Paris is almost talking about a humiliation, forgetting that Air France-KLM is indeed Franco-Dutch and that the Dutch government has every right to...

Despite strikes and disruptions in governance, 2018 seems to have been a good year overall for the Air France KLM group. For the first time in its history, it even passed the symbolic 100 million passenger mark. In total, there were 101.4 million passengers in 2018, compared with...

"Reinventing travel, mobility and logistics" is the aim of BigBlank, the start-up incubator set up by Air France-KLM. A subsidiary of the group, the start-up studio aims to create, from innovative ideas, companies that will meet the future needs of travellers. To achieve this, BigBlank will help entrepreneurs transform their project into a start-up...

Air France-KLM has unveiled its winter programme, with capacity - expressed in seat-kilometres - increasing by 2.8%, compared with just 1.1% for the medium- and short-haul network passenger business. This represents 44 new routes on the long-haul medium- and short-haul networks compared with winter 2017-2018, giving a total increase in capacity of 2.5%. On...

Barely appointed by the Air France Board of Directors, and with the open support of the French government - Air France's main shareholder - the new CEO of Air France, Benjamin Smith, is already causing controversy. He will officially take up his post on September 30, but his arrival is causing waves among the trade unions, which are...

Air France KLM does have a pilot. Or at least, his arrival is imminent. As had been rumoured for several days, Ben Smith has been chosen to take the helm of the airline group, which has been without any real governance since the resignation of its CEO, Jean-Marc Janaillac, three months ago. [link-block prefix="See also:"...

Journalists who accepted Air France KLM's invitation on 1 August in search of information about the group's new governance were left wanting more. As a symbol, Anne-Marie Couderc, acting Chairman, did not make the trip to the Pullman Tour Eiffel on Wednesday morning for the traditional announcement of the half-year results....

A few days after the GDS tax came into force within the Air France KLM group on 1 April, Expedia has reacted. On Wednesday, the travel giant announced that it had reached an agreement with the Air France KLM group. This agreement, which also benefits Egencia customers, means that they will not be impacted by this new GDS surcharge:...

Journalists who went to Air France-KLM's annual conference on Friday in search of major announcements or minor revolutions were disappointed. Long-haul low-cost, Alitalia, strike action: the 'hot' issues of the moment did not give rise to any decisions within the group's management, which was focused on the agenda for the...

According to Jean Marc Janaillac, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air France-KLM and President of Air France, 2017 is a source of satisfaction: "We have approached 100 million passengers, an increase in traffic of 5.65 %, higher than the initial forecasts, and this in a context of ever-increasing competition from the carriers of the...