"insignia. Prior to the Air France-KLM merger, the ""hippocampe ailé"" was used on the nose section of aircraft next to the Groupe Air France title; after the merger, the Air France-KLM logo was substituted at the nose area, and the ""hippocampe ailé"" was relocated to engine nacelles. The acronym ""AF"" has also featured prominently on the airline's flag and its signage. On 7 January 2009, Air France officially changed its logo to a red stripe. Air France is a full service global airline. As of 2011, it flies to 36 domestic destinations and 168 international destinations in 93 countries ""(including"
"both Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol would become key hubs. In February 2004, the European Commission and United States Department of Justice approved the proposed merger of the airlines. In April 2004, an exchange offer in which KLM shareholders exchanged their KLM shares for Air France shares took place. Since 5 May 2004, Air France–KLM has been listed on the Euronext exchanges in Paris, Amsterdam and New York. In September 2004, the merger was completed by creation of the Air France–KLM holding company. The merger resulted in the world's largest airline group and should have"
"and some metropolitan destinations, and is now positioned as part of Air France-KLM's joint low-cost brand, which operates under the Transavia name in both the Netherlands and France. By early 2015, Transavia France, together with its Dutch sister company, received a new corporate design dropping the "".com"" from its public appearance as well as changing its primary colors from white/green/blue to white/green. Transavia France S.A.S. is 60% owned by Air France S.A. and 40% owned by Transavia Airlines C.V. of the Netherlands, both of which in turn are ultimately owned by Air France–KLM. Transavia is run as an independent operation,"
"TUI fly Netherlands TUI fly Netherlands, legally incorporated as ""TUI Airlines Netherlands"" (formerly branded as ""Arkefly"" and ""Arke""), is a Dutch charter airline headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel conglomerate TUI Group and its main base is Schiphol Airport. TUI fly Netherlands traces its roots to Air Holland, which was founded in 1981. After financial problems Air Holland was taken over by the Exel Aviation Group and took a new start as HollandExel in March 2004. In May 2005 the"
"in 2001 (possibly as a result of the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the early 2000s recession which followed). The airline's final bankruptcy was approved after several months of strikes. On 25 March 2001 ""AOM French Airlines"" merged with Air Liberté, the airline retaining the name ""Air Liberté"". On 22 September 2001 the airline was renamed """".. AOM's disappearance was followed by several other French airlines such as Aeris, Air Littoral, and Euralair in the next several years, leaving Air France, Corsair (now Corsairfly) and Star Airlines (now XL Airways France) as the only three largest remaining airlines in"
"and later in Germany were opened. In 1999, the name was changed to ""Aviapartner"". The group expanded by taking over Servisair in Rotterdam (2002), Aero Groundservices in Amsterdam (2007) and SAT in Bordeaux and La Rochelle (2010). In 2011, Aviapartner lost its handling licence in Brussels for seven years to Swissport. This could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs and led to a major 24-hour strike in June 2011 that affected many flights and passengers. Aviapartner went to court as they believed juridical mistakes had been made. The judge ruled that a new investigation was to be conducted"
"Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Condor, all of which have a joint fleet management. In March 2017, parent company Thomas Cook announced its intention to sell its Belgian operations to Lufthansa. Consequently, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium was shut down by late October 2017 with two aircraft and all traffic rights being handed to Brussels Airlines. Its three remaining aircraft were to be relocated to Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium's sister companies. This would have led to the layoff of 40 non-flying staff members, but Dutch group SHS Aviation announced it would take over the flight licences, two of the"
"NetherLines NetherLines B.V. was a commuter airline that was a subsidiary of the Royal Nedlloyd Group. It merged with NLM CityHopper in 1991 to form KLM Cityhopper. Netherlines was founded in April 1984 under the full name of Netherlines Airlines For European Commuter Services BV and began services using Jetstream 31 aircraft on a route between Amsterdam and Luxembourg. Other cities served throughout the years were Eindhoven, Enschede, Rotterdam, Groningen, Cologne, Münster, Lille, Birmingham, East Midlands and Luton. Netherlines also used the Saab 340 to open a route to Vienna. KLM acquired Netherlines in April 1988; the combined Netherlines-NLM Cityhopper"
"As part of these changes, the word ""takeoff"" was removed from general usage, and is only spoken by ATC when actually clearing an aircraft to take off. KLM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally ""Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V."" (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. Founded in 1919, KLM is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name and had 35,488"
"AVOD for every passenger. TUI fly Belgium TUI fly Belgium, legally incorporated as ""TUI Airlines Belgium S.A./N.V."" and formerly branded ""Jetairfly"", is a Belgian airline with its registered office at Brussels Airport. The airline is a subsidiary of the TUI Group and part of the TUI Airlines. TUI Airlines also incorporates the sister companies TUI fly Netherlands (The Netherlands), Corsair International (France), TUI fly Deutschland (Germany), TUI Airways (United Kingdom) and TUI fly Nordic (Sweden). The airline was created in November 2003 as home carrier for tour operator Jetair, part of tourism group TUI AG. The original plans were to"
"rebranded it Virgin Express. It also took over EBA's fleet of Boeing 737s and operated this type of aircraft from thereon. The airline soon concentrated on low-budget scheduled flights out of its Brussels hub, and became a major competitor for Sabena and later SN Brussels Airlines. In October 2004, the Virgin Group sold its assets to SN Brussels Airlines, and both airlines were integrated into the parent holding company SN Airholding, chaired by Viscount Étienne Davignon. On 31 March 2008, SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express announced their merger into a single company, named Brussels Airlines. The combined airline added"
"between their flag carriers (Air France and KLM) in 2004 and the Danone takeover of Numico in 2007. The ministry also stated that between 1993 and 2008, Dutch companies maintaining operations in France, including AkzoNobel, DSM, DSV, Heineken International, Royal Dutch Shell, Philips, SHV Holdings, TNT Express, and Vopak, contributed to the creation of 15,000 jobs in the country. From 1957 until its closure in 2013, the Institut Néerlandais in Paris promoted Dutch art and culture and was one of the oldest cultural centers in the city. Its counterpart, the Institut Français, has branches in Amsterdam and Groningen that promote"
"Exel Aviation Group was declared bankrupt. The German TUI Group took over the airline's activities and renamed it ArkeFly. It is now wholly owned by the TUI Group. Its name was based on the biggest Dutch tour operator, Arke, which is also a subsidiary of the TUI Group. The newly reorganised airline operated its first flight in September 2005. Operations in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, began on 15 July 2004 as DutchCaribbeanExel, which was originally part of the Exel Aviation Group, but was later taken over, together with parent airline, HollandExel, by the TUI Group, and renamed ArkeFly Curaçao. ArkeFly started"
"formally joined SkyTeam in September 2004, rendering the Wings alliance officially defunct. Wings Alliance Wings Alliance was the working name of a proposed airline alliance to be anchored by the American carriers Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines of USA with the European flag carriers KLM of the Netherlands and Italy's Alitalia. Although these airlines cooperated with one another through code-sharing and frequent flyer program coordination, no formal association was ever announced. It was rendered superfluous in September 2004 when most of its participants joined the SkyTeam alliance. Northwest and KLM had begun cooperating in 1989, but the formation of the"
"Sint Maarten and 36,824 living on the French Collectivity of Saint Martin. France is the Netherlands' fourth-largest investor, third-largest exporter, and sixth-largest supplier, to which the Netherlands is also France's seventh-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, about 400 French companies in the industries of service, metallurgy, and agriculture maintain operations in the Netherlands, including AccorHotels, Air France–KLM, Atos, Capgemini, Engie, Saint-Gobain, Sodexo, Thales Group, and Total S.A.. France and the Netherlands have agreed to establish synergies to further enhance bilateral cooperation between the countries' economies, notably the Air France–KLM merger"
"Magic Blue Airlines Magic Blue Airlines was a charter passenger airline based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It was previously an all-freight operator and intended to operate charter services from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Mediterranean holiday destinations starting later in 2005 using BAe ATP aircraft. In December 2005 the airline filed for bankruptcy. The airline was established as Farnair Europe and was renamed in January 2004. It was wholly owned by FN Holding. In March 2005 it was planning to use two Boeing 757–200s to start charter operations later that year instead of Airbus A300B4-200s as it had previously announced."
"KLM Cityhopper KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline subsidiary of KLM, headquartered in Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands. It is based at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. As a subsidiary of Air France–KLM, it is an affiliate of SkyTeam. The airline operates scheduled European feeder services on behalf of KLM. The airline was established on 1 April 1991, and started operations the same year. It was formed from the merger of NLM CityHopper and Netherlines. Following the 1991 merge in of KLM UK, NLM Cityhopper and NetherLines, KLM Cityhopper had Europe's largest fleet composition of all Fokker-built aircraft: the Fokker 50, 70"
"Air Holland Air Holland was an airline based in the Netherlands. It operated passenger and cargo charters to Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, as well as dry and wet leasing of aircraft to other airlines. It ceased operations on 25 March 2004. The airline was headquartered in Oude Meer, Haarlemmermeer. Air Holland was founded in 1984 by John Block. It took a while for the airline to gain its operating certificate after KLM and Transavia Airlines attempted to stop the airline from getting it. In the 1990s, Transavia Airlines attempted to purchase Air Holland but they were unsuccessful. In 1991,"
"company Jetairfly. Jetairfly took over all the aircraft, personnel and routes from Jet4you. The integration into Jetairfly was finalised in 2012, and all operations transferred in April 2012. All aircraft are now in Jetairfly colours, and all flights are booked through Jetairfly. Jet4You ceased operations in 2011, and merged with Jetairfly. For some other fleet information, redirect to: JetairFly's fleet: Jet4you Jet4you was a low-cost airline based in Casablanca, Morocco. It operated services between Moroccan cities and destinations in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland (Sunway charter) and Italy. Its main base was Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, with focus"
"travel with children. Frequent passengers included conference members, symphony orchestras and footballers of Ajax. DutchBird was the “Official Carrier of Ajax” since September 2002. All flights were stopped in December 2004 and the airline is under Dutch bankruptcy protection. The DutchBird fleet consisted of three Boeing 757 and two Airbus A320 aircraft. DutchBird DutchBird was a charter airline based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It operated charter services to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Tunisia and the Canary Islands for a number of holiday companies. Its main base was Schiphol Airport. It ceased operations in December 2004. The airline was established in 2000 and"
"and reach 1.5 million passengers by 2010, with a fleet of ten aircraft and a 395-strong team. On 17 June 2008, it was announced that TUI Travel had taken 100% ownership of the airline, and on 18 July 2009, TUI Travel signed a letter of intent to sell a majority stake in Jet4you to Royal Air Maroc Jet4you adopted the IATA code 8J from the now defunct Russian airline Komiinteravia. (This code was subsequently removed from Jet4you and assigned to Línea Aérea EcoJet S.A.) On 10 January 2012, it was announced that Jet4you would be completely integrated in the Belgian"
"operation was NLM CityHopper/Netherlines, and it had its head office in Building 70 at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The operations of Netherlines were merged with NLM Cityhopper, and the combined company became KLM CityHopper on 1 April 1991. NetherLines NetherLines B.V. was a commuter airline that was a subsidiary of the Royal Nedlloyd Group. It merged with NLM CityHopper in 1991 to form KLM Cityhopper. Netherlines was founded in April 1984 under the full name of Netherlines Airlines For European Commuter Services BV and began services using Jetstream 31 aircraft on a route between Amsterdam and Luxembourg. Other cities served throughout"
"DutchCaribbeanExel DutchCaribbeanExel was an airline with its head office in Amsterdam. It was an airline, that was connecting Netherlands to the Netherlands Antilles and was based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airline was established in 2004 and started operations on 15 July 2004. It was wholly owned by ExelAviationGroup. The airline folded in February 2005 when the ExelGroup declared bankruptcy. DutchCaribbeanExel was part of the Exel Group which consisted of BelgiumExel, AlsaceExel, and DutchCaribbeanExel. The Exel Aviation Group started to disintegrate late-2004, soon after the takeover of DutchBird; when failed Air Holland (declared bankrupt 25Mar04 with 30 million euros in"
"with parent airline, HollandExel, by TUI Nederland, and renamed Arkefly Curaçao. DutchCaribbeanExel operated the following services (in January 2005): Domestic scheduled destinations: ""Amsterdam"" International scheduled destinations: ""Aruba."" ""Bonaire"" ""Curaçao"" The DutchCaribbeanExel fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at April 2005): DutchCaribbeanExel DutchCaribbeanExel was an airline with its head office in Amsterdam. It was an airline, that was connecting Netherlands to the Netherlands Antilles and was based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airline was established in 2004 and started operations on 15 July 2004. It was wholly owned by ExelAviationGroup. The airline folded in February 2005 when the ExelGroup declared bankruptcy."
"close partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Northwest, along with partners KLM and Continental Airlines joined SkyTeam, an airline alliance of ten airlines from around the world, on September 15, 2004. This was partially a result of Air France acquiring KLM, forming the Air France-KLM group. The airline continued to hemorrhage money, however. Despite far-reaching money saving initiatives, Northwest was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the first time in its 79-year history. The filing took place in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on September 14, 2005. With Northwest's filing, four"
"be screened for passengers on a scheduled airliner flight when it was shown on the London-Paris route. Two French airlines also merged to form Air Union on 1 January 1923. This later merged with four other French airlines to become Air France, the country's flagship carrier to this day, on 7 October 1933. Germany's Deutsche Luft Hansa was created in 1926 by merger of two airlines, one of them Junkers Luftverkehr. Luft Hansa, due to the Junkers heritage and unlike most other airlines at the time, became a major investor in airlines outside of Europe, providing capital to Varig and"
"and customers from offices and companies in the Invalides area. The subsidiaries of Air France include: Air France and Dutch affiliate Transavia formed Transavia France, a low-cost joint venture in May 2007, based at Orly Airport. Air Corsica, CityJet and HOP! all operate flights on behalf of Air France, either as subsidiaries or as franchisees. Owing to the disputed status of Taiwan, Air France could not operate flights to the island under its own name. In 1993, its subsidiary, Air Charter, began operating flights between Paris and Taipei via Hong Kong, but after Air Charter ceased operations in 1998, a"
"Arke was the first to undergo the change, and was renamed TUI on 1 October 2015 - therefore changing the airline's name also. Since 2017, the airline uses the brand ""TUI fly"" together with its sister companies TUI fly Deutschland, Belgium and Nordic. TUI fly Netherlands carries out regular and chartered flights, although most of the chartered flights are operated for the Dutch tour operator TUI Netherlands. It operates to destinations in the Mediterranean, Finland, Canary Islands, Red Sea, Mexico, Caribbean, United States, Africa, Middle East and the Dutch Caribbean. Additionally, TUI fly Netherlands maintains codeshare agreements with the following"
"after charter company Sobelair (home carrier for Jetair) ceased its operations, Jetairfly started its operations with 5 aircraft. On 23 November 2005, The airline was rebranded Jetairfly as part of the rebranding around Belgium's number 1 tourism brand Jetair. In January 2012, Jetairfly announced that Jet4you, a low-cost Moroccan carrier and also a subsidiary of the TUI AG Group, would be fully integrated in Jetairfly. The merger was complete in April 2012. In March 2012, Jetairfly officially became a full scheduled airline, while previously a part of their flights were conducted as charter flights. As a result, all flights can"
"TUI fly Belgium TUI fly Belgium, legally incorporated as ""TUI Airlines Belgium S.A./N.V."" and formerly branded ""Jetairfly"", is a Belgian airline with its registered office at Brussels Airport. The airline is a subsidiary of the TUI Group and part of the TUI Airlines. TUI Airlines also incorporates the sister companies TUI fly Netherlands (The Netherlands), Corsair International (France), TUI fly Deutschland (Germany), TUI Airways (United Kingdom) and TUI fly Nordic (Sweden). The airline was created in November 2003 as home carrier for tour operator Jetair, part of tourism group TUI AG. The original plans were to operate two aircraft, but"
"Linate. Alitalia left to join SkyTeam, while KLM dallied with a potential merger with British Airways, a Oneworld carrier. Finally, the European Commission began its own antitrust investigation into the relationship between KLM and Northwest. The EC investigation closed its investigation in late July 2002, but momentum for forming a true alliance had been lost. The members of would-be Wings focused on bilateral agreements with smaller carriers instead. In 2003 KLM began negotiations to merge with SkyTeam carrier Air France, which was concluded in early 2004, while Continental Airlines and Northwest began negotiating their own entry. KLM, Northwest, and Continental"
"and do not receive significant benefits from traditional frequent flyer programmes. Brussels Airlines Brussels Airlines (stylized as brussels airlines) is the flag carrier and largest airline of Belgium, based and headquartered at Brussels Airport. It operates to over 120 destinations in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia and also offers charter services, maintenance and crew training (as of 2007). The airline is a member of the Star Alliance as well as the International Air Transport Association. The airline's IATA code ""SN"" is inherited from its predecessors, Sabena and SN Brussels Airlines. Lufthansa purchased 45% of the company in 2009, and"
"HollandExel HollandExel was an airline based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It operated charter services for tour operators. It ceased operations in 2005. The airline was established in 2003 and started operations in January 2004. The airline was formed on the remains of the defunct Air Holland, taking over its fleet of Boeing 767-300 aircraft. It was formerly legally known as ATR Leasing VI and was established as a subsidiary of the Dutch holding company Exel Aviation Group (EAG). The charter carrier operated mainly on behalf of TUI and Thomas Cook. Sister airlines were set up in Belgium under the name"