Originally Posted by
Satie
One of KL biggest feeder market is...France. While the Dutch market is insignificant for AF (very far from Italy, Germany, Spain, UK...).
IMO KL benefits more from the AFKL merger than AF does.
That is true.
It all comes down to bad management from AF.
They bought KL in 2004 while KL was going through rough times and kept KL independent within the group.
It must be embarrassing for the AF management that KL is doing so well now.
Yes Air France pays more to Aeroports de Paris than KL pays to Schiphol but they should have done even better than KL.
This whole case is due to longtime bad management from AFKL group and Air France itself.