KLM sees no need for own long-haul low-cost initiative
KLM does not intend to emulate its sister company Air France by starting a new long-haul low-cost operation, the Dutch airline's CE Pieter Elbers has indicated. Instead, KLM will apply to its long-haul services the cost-saving measures it has pioneered on its medium-haul network over the last 2 years, Elbers explains. Those have involved denser aircraft configurations and increased utilisation, he notes, adding: "We are already starting to implement that on the long-haul side as well." KLM already has a low-cost arm, Transavia, which operates mainly short-haul European and some medium-haul flights. Air France intends for Boost to begin operations in October. Earlier this year, Air France pilots represented by the carrier's largest pilot union SNPL gave conditional backing in principle to the establishment of Boost. <br/>
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KLM sees no need for own long-haul low-cost initiative
KLM does not intend to emulate its sister company Air France by starting a new long-haul low-cost operation, the Dutch airline's CE Pieter Elbers has indicated. Instead, KLM will apply to its long-haul services the cost-saving measures it has pioneered on its medium-haul network over the last 2 years, Elbers explains. Those have involved denser aircraft configurations and increased utilisation, he notes, adding: "We are already starting to implement that on the long-haul side as well." KLM already has a low-cost arm, Transavia, which operates mainly short-haul European and some medium-haul flights. Air France intends for Boost to begin operations in October. Earlier this year, Air France pilots represented by the carrier's largest pilot union SNPL gave conditional backing in principle to the establishment of Boost. <br/>
