KLM Air France, KLM Royal Dutch and Air France with subsidiaries
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Air France
Air France Airbus A320 F-CFKJ painted in the historic Air France colours of the 1960s.
Picture from Warsaw international airport 25.6.2010 by Ilkka Siissalo.
F-GLZJ was an Airbus A340 version 300 which was delivered to Air France in September 1997. It flew at Air France until July 2019
and by now it has been scrapped. It seems that for most of its career it flew between Paris and different sites in Africa.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport 21.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
An Air France Boeing B777 jet taking off.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 18.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
F-GSPP is a Boeing B777 version 228 ER (extended range) aircraft. It was delivered to Air France already in 2001.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 18.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Air France belongs to the same airline alliance, Skyteam, than for instance Alitalia or Aeroflot. Therefore it's not surprising to
see an Air France machine in Skyteam's livery, like here. F-GKXS is an Airbus A320 version 200 delivered in March 2009.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 21.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
One of Ar France's Airbus A319 planes. F-GRHV is from the year 2001. It is an A319 version 111.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 21.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
One of Air France's former supersonic Concorde planes has been kept at the Paris CDG airport as a monument. It was a very remarkable
piece of technology, considering it was designed and made in the 1960s.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 18.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another view of the same monument Concorde.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 18.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Still the same Concorde from a bit different angle.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport 18.10.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines / Air France KLM / KLM Cityhopper / KLM Asia
KLM Royal Dutch had a financial collapse and would have gone bankrupt, but was saved by being taken over by Air France. Today the company is called
KLM Air France or - as often seen - the other way round, Air France KLM. KLM Cityhopper is technically another company specialising in KLM's short haul routes.
PH-BXA is a KLM Royal Dutch Boeing B737-800 taken in service in 1999. It is taped in the historic colours which KLM used in the 1960s.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 3.3.2016 by Ilkka Siissalo.
PH-BCB is a Boeing B737 version 800 machine which was delivered to KLM in 2011. Here it is just being pushed out of its gate at Helsinki-Vantaa in Finland,
leaving towards Amsterdam.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 3.4.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The same machine as above, PH-BCB "Grote Pijlstormvogel" (That is a bird species which in English is called Great Shearwater) seen from its front.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 3.4.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
PH-BXZ is a Boeing B737-800 taken in use in February 2008. It is named Uil (in English owl).
Picture from Copenhagen-Kastrup airport 16.5.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another picture of the same PH-BXZ as above.
Picture from Copenhagen-Kastrup airport 16.5.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
This small one, PH-EXI, is an Embraer EMB-175STD. It belongs to KLM Cityhopper and it has been in use since 08/2016.
Picture from Düsseldorf, Germany, 8.10.2016 by Ilkka Siissalo.
PH-EZV is an Embraer ERJ-190 from the year 2012. It has all the time been working for KLM Air France, to be more precise, for KLM Cityhopper.
Here we see it just leaving the Amsterdam-Schiphol airport.
Picture 16.3.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Here we see KLM Cityhopper's PH-EXV just seconds before touchdown landing at London City airport. It is an Embraer ERJ-190 which was delivered
as a new machine to KLM Cityhopper in February 2018.
Picture from London City airport 18.3.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
This is the same KLM Cityhopper's PH-EXV which is shown above. Here it is just taxiing to the terminal building after landing.
Picture from London City airport 18.3.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
PH-BQK is a Boeing B777 version 206 extended range of KLM Asia. Its first flight was in January 2005. The machine carries the name
"Mount Kilimanjaro". It is used on long range flights from Amsterdam, not only to Asia, as the name implies, but to places like Mumbai,
Seoul, San Francisco, Paramaribo, Atlanta and Rio de Janeiro.
Picture from Amsterdam-Schiphol 16.3.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
KLM PH-AOB is an Airbus A330 version 200 named "Potzdamer Platz - Berlin". All of KLM's A330 planes have been named after famous squares
all over the world. This one was taken in use by KLM in September 2005. It's been lately flying from Amsterdam to Entebbe, Uganda, to Aruba
and to Montreal - so all over the world.
Picture from Amsterdam Schiphol 12.6.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
KLM PH-AKB is an Airbus A330 version 300 named "Piazza Navona - Roma". It's slightly bigger than the version 200 shown above. KLM took this
one in use as a new machine in March 2012.
Picture from Amsterdam Schiphol 12.6.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
One more in the series of planes with names of famous squares, this is the "Parliament Square, Edinburgh" PH-AOE of Air France - KLM,
an Airbus A330 version 203..
Picture from Amsterdam Schiphol 12.6.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Joon
Joon was an effort to approach the young people and create an airline for only the young with cheap prices. The planes came from
Air France and Joon was all the time a subsidiary of Air France. It had a network which fairly optimistically wanted to cover most of the
prime cities of Europe. However, Joon failed. Joon ceased
all operations on 26th of June 2019 and the planes and other operations will be fused back to Air France. This was a total failure.
Picture from Stockholm Arlanda 4.4.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Although Joon ceased all operations already almost half a year earlier, in November 2019 many planes could be seen in Joon's colours.
This F-GTAM is an Airbus A321 version 200 delivered to Air France in 2003. It flew for Joon from March 2018 to June 2019 when all of
Joon's operations were ceased and all aircraft were returned to Air France.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport 8.11.2019 by ILkka Siissalo.
The same formerly Joon, now again Air France F-GTAM Airbus A321 seen here taxiing at Paris CDG.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport 8.11.2019 by ILkka Siissalo.
Another formerly Joon, now again Air France, Airbus A321 F-GTAJ at Paris CDG. It is an Airbus A321 version 200 which was delivered to
Air France already in 2001.
Picture from Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport 8.11.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Transavia
Transavia is a Dutch discount flier which is 95,5% directly owned by Air France and the rest 4,5% also indirectly. There is also a
daughter company called Transavia France, but also that one is directly plus indirectly fully owned by Air France. Transavia France has
71 B737-800 machines and Transavia (Dutch) has 39 machines. Both are now in the process of getting rid of their older B737-800 planes
and replacing them with new Airbus A320neo and A321neo machines.
This machine is a new Boeing B737-max8 plane taken in use first in 2019.
Picture from Schiphol airport 12.6.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.