Higher revenues, more passengers, but still a lower net result. That describes the fiscal year 2019 for Air France-KLM. The Franco-Dutch airline group recorded a net income in 2019 of EUR 290 million compared to 420 million in 2018 (a…
Ryanair regained its leading position as Europe’s biggest airline in passenger numbers: the Irish low-cost flew 152.4 million pax in 2019, including LaudaMotion. This makes her bigger than Lufthansa again, who secured pole position in 2018. Now that most airline…
Air France-KLM will (have to) ‘reinvent’ itself if it wants to meet its targets of higher revenues, strong improvement of the operating margin, reduced costs, and more operational efficiency, the French-Dutch airline group said on its Investor Day on November…
How to celebrate your 100th birthday? KLM knows only one way to do it: BIG and in style. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij used its founding date October 7 to good effect to invite special guests, former KLM bosses, the minister of…
Some 6,5 years since signing the order, Air France on September 27 has taken delivery of its first of 28 Airbus A350-900s. The arrival of the type marks a next step in renewing the (long-haul) fleet and swapping old for…
It’s a strange twist of fortune: while UK low-cost airline easyjet will launch its Holidays business before year-end and likewise Air Asia is investing heavily in its holiday-branch, one of the oldest names in business has collapsed. Late on Sunday,…