Nick, you clearly stated that under the current terms KLM could change anything they wanted if and when they see fit. Every other programme in the world has the EXACT SAME wording. Everyone on FT is familiar with the wording, the only exceptions I know of are when programmes promise a certain time period before they announce changes, which generally seems to be six months.

For that matter KLM or ANY other programme can STOP their programmes at ANYTIME if they want. That is life. I suppose that what I was saying was that your comments were taking the patently obvious (at least to EVERY person on FT) and trying to make it sound NOVEL.

In addition there are similar examples in Europe relating to Qualiflyer (too many to quote here), which were only hampered by the programmes ineptitude in keeping carriers in the programme.

We do not know how KLM will go on this, I will say however that it is quite likely that they will stick to industy norms rather than buck them. The Dutch are actually quite litigious (moreso than many other countries) and if they make too drastic changes, there will be a court action in the Netherlands. I do not think that KLM would want that situation and will act accordingly.