Information on KLM Airlines
KLM is one of the national airline company of the Netherlands in full Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij. It was actually found in 1919 and its first flight was lunched in 1920 from London to Amsterdam with 2 English and number of newspapers. In 1926, they have started scheduled services to the countries like Brussels, London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and mainly it operates scheduled services from airline hub of Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam where its subsidary company Air France-KLM's headquarters is situated. In May 2004 Air France took over KLM and now it is one of the largest airline company in the world in terms of operating revenues and third largest company in the world in RPKs (Revenue-Passenger-kilometers).
Fleet of KLM aircraft
- 14 Boeing 737-300
- 14 Boeing 737-800 (+ 14 on order)
- 13 Boeing 737-400
- 03 Boeing 747-400ERF (full freighter, + 1 on order)
- 03 Airbus A330-200 (+ 9 orders)
- 05 Boeing 737-900 (+ 15 on order)
- 22 Boeing 747-400 (5 full pax, 17 combi)
- 10 McDonnell Douglas MD-11
- 09 Boeing 767-300ER
- 11 Boeing 777-200ER (+ 7 on order)
KLM has manily three core activities Cargo transport, Passenger Transport and as well engineering & maintenance. It serves around 85 countries and aslo 400 cities. According to many sources the goal of the KLM is to be a first choice passenger and also they say that their success lies in their competetive prices and as well flexibilty of choosing the departure airport. It carries more than 17 millions of passengers each year and it is the 4th largest Airlines in Europe.
They have introduced many programs and one of them is KLM's BlueBiz which is an onlline booking incentive for both small and medium enterprises and not only this still their are many programs available for Business Information, Special deals for students.
