White Porcelain
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines: 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 destinations, KLM offers both international and domestic flights. It is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance, the world’s second largest airline alliance.
KLM-Royal Dutch is part of Air France-KLM and also has an operating partnership with Northwest Airlines of the United States. The entire KLM group carries almost 75 million passengers annually, operates a fleet in 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.
Air France and KLM announced their plans to merge in 2003, marking the end of the oldest independent airline in the world. However, the merger did not impact KLM’s long time partnership with United States based Northwest Airlines, as both companies joined the SkyTeam alliance in September 2004.
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’s frequent flyer program is called Flying Blue. Flying Blue members can earn and spend mileage points on flights and services of Air France-KLM, other companies of the SkyTeam airline alliance and assorted other financial, travel, and transportation companies. Flying Blue contains four membership levels – Ivory, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Level miles are gained by taking any flights with an AF or KL code or flights operated by one of SkyTeam’s airline companies under the code of any other SkyTeam airline, or flights operated by Kenya Airways, which is a Flying Blue partner.
The venerable history of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines has not shielded it from the current year’s economic turbulence. On account of declining ticket sales and lower cargo traffic, Air France-KLM announced recently that will lay off up to 2,000 workers. These job cuts represent about 3 per cent of the total workforce. The company further plans to reduce its airline capacity by about 2 per cent in the summer of 2009, hoping to compensate for the $653 million loss it posted for the fourth quarter of 2008. Company management has said it has not ruled out even more future job reductions or flight terminations as the company seeks to stabilize its finances and return to profitability.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, an airline watchdog group, announced in February 2009 that the group is suing KLM over allegations of price fixing. KLM denies the charges and plans to contest the lawsuit. Qantas and British Airways were recently fined $20 million and $5 million for similar allegations of price fixing.
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