Air France and KLM joined forces on May 5, 2004. The founding principle of this remarkable step was ‘One Holding, Two Airlines, Three Businesses’. Combining strengths, whilst keeping the best of both worlds. This is a unique concept in the airline industry.
Our joint history
The nature of the air cargo industry, the strength of the diversity of the two cargo divisions and the positive attitude of our customers convinced us to engage in a journey towards a joint cargo future. But not without sticking to some guiding principles.
A step-by-step approach. No overnight changes, and enough time to inform, consult and involve our customers.?? Pursue the best of both worlds, thus retaining the strength of the diversity within Air France Cargo and KLM Cargo.?? Enhance customer value. To do the right thing for our customers, because we value high the needs and wishes of our partners in the supply chain.? One face to the market, but two operational systems and two hubs: Charles-de-Gaulle in Paris and Schiphol in Amsterdam.??Our mission & ambition
In our journey towards the future we have some strong believes and goals.
We strongly believe we are ‘en route’ to becoming the Leading Air Cargo Company:
- provider of international air cargo ‘plus’ services to and from Europe;
- provider of smart solutions to improve performance in world supply chains;
- key actor in cargo industry (being part of a leading cargo alliance, and partner in major industry wide cargo initiatives)?????????
Our ambition is to create a platform for enhanced customer value, because only through the support of our customers and partners we will be able to continue to offer state-of-the art logistics solutions
Our vision & how we work
To combine our strengths in the most effective way we have created one management line: the joint cargo management team. One team, to offer you multiple solutions. On the commercial side we integrated all our activities and we created one identity for all our services, ‘one face to the customer’.?We organized our activities around four building blocks:
- commercial offering: our two networks, our products & our services;
- people: the Joint Cargo Management Team, with their professional skills, their commitment to deliver what they promise, each with their own capabilities and team spirit;
- operating systems: our fleet mix, infrastructure & two hubs (Paris & Amsterdam);
- partnerships and alliances (SkyTeam Cargo and other partners).????????
Mr Bastiaan Hoogendoorn , Regional Director
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