Originally Posted by
Sam Asama
The end of Air France is the best thing that could happen to KLM. The oh-so-wise financial people who brought about that dysfunctional merger didn't understand the huge cultural differences between those two countries and those two entitities. I fly KLM very often internationally. In many cases I could choose Air France and save both time and money. I (and many other frequent flyers) will not do that. Enough said.
Prior to the Air France merger KLM was running out of cash with no end in sight. Without the Air France merger KLM would have shut down within 6 months.
This was covered in the Business publications at the time.