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Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why

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Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why

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Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why === #fligavia #boeing #airbus #airline #aviation === Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why The national airline of the Netherlands - KLM was founded in 19 19, and is the oldest airline on earth. The airline has a long history dating back to World War 2, the post-war period and the jet aircraft boom. Until now, this is still an important bridge connecting Europe with other regions of the world. This delicious piece of cake always makes both Boeing and Airbus compete to bring the plane into KLM's fleet. And until now, Boeing has absolutely dominated almost the entire airline fleet. As a result, when news broke that KLM wanted to upgrade its long-haul fleet, people believed they would continue to choose Boeing aircraft, specifically the 7 8 7. But surprisingly they decided to choose Airbus A3 50 instead. So what's going on? Why does KLM build its future fleet based on Airbus? Let’s find out! KLM’s background Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why First about the history of KLM, as mentioned above The airline was founded in 19 19 and in 2004 KLM joined SkyTeam, an international airline alliance. The same year, the airline was acquired by Air France to create Air France - KLM, one of the world’s largest air carriers. But it is different from some other recent airline mergers such as those of two US airlines, United Continental and Delta Northwest. Under the terms of the deal, the two airlines continued to operate as separate companies, retaining their own hubs, flights, and logos. The Air France-KLM group is currently owned by shareholders, of which the French State is the largest with a 28.6% stake, while the Dutch State currently holds 9.3%. Every Airline Says "GOODBYE" to Boeing and Prefers A350! Here's Why It can be said that although both share the same board of directors to provide things like strategic direction and financial management. But basically, their original team and network are still clearly different. The proof is in their fleet, while Air France favors Airbus and KLM prefers Boeing. And once the airline is entrenched in its own Boeing or Airbus ecosystem. They are more likely to stay loyal to a manufacturer they chose from the start. This ensures the similarity of the fleet, uniformity between aircraft, helping the airline save a lot of costs in training pilots, they can fly more than one aircraft at the same time. And extremely beneficial in the maintenance of future aircraft.