KLM is cutting staff and optimizing the fleet due to industry challenges. According to KLM President and CEO Marjan Rinal, working conditions are becoming more difficult: global instability, high fuel prices and increasing pressures on the industry. Therefore, at this turning point we take difficult, sometimes painful steps. Reduction of KLM staff by 15% - 5 thousand people of these, a thousand jobs will be gradually destroyed due to digitalization, consolidation of functions and planned growth of labor productivity by 8%. The remaining 4,000 jobs will be redistributed: 2,000 will be transferred directly to Air France-KLM (including 1,500 contact center employees). 1,250 catering workers have already been transferred to an external company. About 800 employees of ground services and baggage handling will be transferred to third-party handlers. The Dutch airline refuses to deliver nine A320neo aircraft, which were waiting for 2028. The balance of the European network is changing: trunk flights will close the more spacious A321neo, routes with less load will pass the E195-E2 regional ember of the KLM Cityhopper. In the coming years, the Boeing 737 and Embraer E190 will finally be phased out. The plan aims to increase operating profit by one billion euros per year. "Overcoming uncertainty," said KLM CFO B Browns. Another example of the airline industry hitting global issues. Some are adjusted, others lose profits." Some are forced to cut the fleet and the number of flights, and some are forced to flee bankruptcy. Fasten your seat belts on Telegram.

KLM is cutting staff and optimizing the fleet due to industry challenges. According to KLM President and CEO Marjan Rinal, working conditions are becoming more difficult: global instability, high fuel prices and increasing pressures on the industry. Therefore, at this turning point we take difficult, sometimes painful steps. Reduction of KLM staff by 15% - 5 thousand people of these, a thousand jobs will be gradually destroyed due to digitalization, consolidation of functions and planned growth of labor productivity by 8%. The remaining 4,000 jobs will be redistributed: 2,000 will be transferred directly to Air France-KLM (including 1,500 contact center employees). 1,250 catering workers have already been transferred to an external company. About 800 employees of ground services and baggage handling will be transferred to third-party handlers. The Dutch airline refuses to deliver nine A320neo aircraft, which were waiting for 2028. The balance of the European network is changing: trunk flights will close the more spacious A321neo, routes with less load will pass the E195-E2 regional ember of the KLM Cityhopper. In the coming years, the Boeing 737 and Embraer E190 will finally be phased out. The plan aims to increase operating profit by one billion euros per year. "Overcoming uncertainty," said KLM CFO B Browns. Another example of the airline industry hitting global issues. Some are adjusted, others lose profits." Some are forced to cut the fleet and the number of flights, and some are forced to flee bankruptcy. Fasten your seat belts on Telegram.