KLM cityhopper

Amsterdam -Schiphol

KLM Cityhopper ( corporate name until 1991 when NLM ) is a Dutch regional airline based in Haarlemmermeer and a subsidiary of KLM.

History

KLM Cityhopper was founded in 1966 as Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij (NLM ) and took on 29 August 1966, a Fokker F-27 flight operations in the Netherlands, followed by the first international short-haul in 1975. March 3, In 1978 NLM Cityhopper with a Fokker F-28 the first jet.

After the merger with the Company Netherlines in April 1991, the Company received its present name KLM Cityhopper (for a time was cityhopper but written in small letters ). After retirement of the Saab 340 fleet now consists of machines from the Dutch manufacturer Fokker and Embraer of Brazil.

In 2004, integrated KLM Cityhopper, KLM Cityhopper UK completely. KLM Cityhopper UK was established on 1 January 1980 by the merger of British regional airlines Air Anglia, Air Wales, Air West and British Airways Iceland by the name of Air UK. First, the company was a partner of KLM, the Dutch later involved in the British airline until it was bought and renamed KLM UK. KLM merged the company more and more with her daughter KLM cityhopper and eventually renamed it to KLM Cityhopper UK. For KLM UK belonged to the beginning of 2003, the low cost airline Buzz. This company, which emerged from the BAe 146 fleet of Air UK was, however, sold to the Irish competitors Ryanair.

End of March 2010 left the last Fokker 50 of KLM Cityhopper 's fleet, in the fall of 2012 followed by the last Fokker 100

In August 2013, the modernization of the remaining Fokker 70, which received a new cabin interior began.

Destinations

KLM Cityhopper operates for its parent company KLM from its base in Amsterdam from numerous regional and feeder flights within Europe by. Destinations include Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, Prague, Gothenburg and Bologna. In German-speaking Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne / Bonn, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zurich and Vienna are served. Some objectives will be served in the exchange of KLM itself.

Fleet

As of December 2012, the fleet of KLM Cityhopper consists of 49 planes with an average age of 10.7 years:

  • 22 Embraer 190
  • 27 Fokker 70 (1 operated for the Dutch armed forces; 6 be until April 2014 scrapped )
  • 06 Embraer 190 ( shipping in November 2013)
IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code Amsterdam Airport Schiphol International Securities Identification Number SkyTeam Buzz (airline)
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