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KLM: National Airline Of The Netherlands
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines is the Netherlands’ national carrier, with its home offices in Amstelveen and its main hub at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Serving over 90 travel destinations, KLM offers both international and domestic flights. It is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance, the world’s second largest airline alliance.
For the past several years, KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines has been part of Air France-KLM, while it has also maintained an operating travel partnership with Northwest Airlines, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the USA. The two-airline consortium operates a fleet of 607 aircraft that carry nearly 75 million passengers a year to 258 destinations. The Air France-KLM partnership recently obtained even more global reach by purchasing a 25 per cent stake in the Italian carrier Alitalia.
The entire KLM group carries almost 75 million passengers annually, operates a fleet in travel operation of 607 aircraft, and serves 258 destinations worldwide. Air France-KLM recently purchased a 25 percent stake in the Italian airline Alitalia.
KLM-Royal Dutch is the world’s oldest airline and was founded in 1919. KLM-Royal Dutch operated its first flight in May 1920 from London to Amsterdam. The airline stopped operating during World War II. KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines has been accused of helping Nazi war criminals flee Germany after World War II, a charge the company denies.
If you fly in business class or the first-class cabin on KLM, you will be given souvenir Delftware, blue-and-white porcelain reproductions of the canal houses of old Holland. These miniature houses are filled with Dutch liquor. The practice of handing out the Delftware mementos for each premium traveler began in 1952, and as of 2008, the airline’s eighty-eighth year of operation, there are 88 Delftware designs. A new Delftware porcelain is added on October 7 each year, on the anniversary of the founding of the airline.
KLM gifts its long-haul first-class and business passengers with small Delftware, blue-and-white porcelain reproductions of old Dutch canal houses. The houses are filled with Dutch liquor. This practice started in 1952. There are now 88 Delftware houses as of 2008 (the airline’s age that year). A new Delftware house is added each year on October 7, the anniversary of the airline’s founding.
KLM’s venerable history hasn’t protected the company for current economic turbulence. Air France-KLM recently announced it will lay off up to 2,000 employees on account of lower ticket sales and fewer cargo shipments. These cuts represent about 1 in 30 Air France-KLM workers. The company also plans to reduce its airline capacity by about 2 per cent in the summer of 2009, to make up for the $653 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2008. Airline management says it has not ruled out future job cuts or flight reductions as they seek to stabilize their finances and return the company to profitability.
KLM’s past success isn’t protecting the airline from a bumpy future. The airline recently announced it will cut up to 2,000 jobs due to lower ticket sales and lower cargo volumes. The cuts represent three percent of the KLM workforce. KLM also plans to reduce its airline capacity by two percent in summer 2009. KLM lost $653 million dollars in the quarter ending December 31, 2008. Airline officials say they haven’t ruled out future cuts or reductions as they look to stabilize their business and return the airline to profitability.
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