Air France-KLM

Air France-KLM — the European holding airline. The Headquarters is in the airport of a name of Charles де Gaulle, near to Paris.

The airline is the world's largest, from the point of view of volume of a gain and the third in the world from the point of view of quantity of passazhiro-kilometres and the size of a passenger-carrying fleet.

The director of the company is Jean-Cyril Spinetta.

Air France-KLM — a member of association SkyTeam. The company is the ancestor of bonus program FlyingBlue.

Company Air France-KLM is the proprietor of such companies, as:

* Air France (including Regional and Brit Air)
* KLM (together with KLM Cityhopper)
* Transavia.com
* CityJet
* VLM Airlines

Also the company has a certain share holding of companies Martinair, Kenya Airways (26 percent) and Alitalia (2 percent).

History

Air France-KLM has been based by way of merge of the companies of Air France and KLM, on May, 5th, 2004.

As a result of the transaction, the republic France government has received 54,4 % of shares of company.