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The Dutch flag carrier airline KLM operates a fleet of 116 aircraft. The narrow-body fleet is composed of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft which will be replaced by Airbus A320neo family aircraft in 2024. Airbus A330, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft are used on medium
Line drawings of the A330-200 and A330-300, the two most common types in service of Airbus A330 range. The Airbus A330 is a wide-body , dual-isle, twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus . Versions of the A330 have a range of 7,400 to 13,430 kilometres (4,000 to 7,250 nautical miles ), and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class ...
CEO Ben Smith announced at Air France's Investor Day (5 November 2019) in Paris that "in the near future", KLM will only use the 777 and 787 as their long-haul fleet, retiring their thirteen A330's. [160] In December 2021, Air France-KLM ordered 100 Airbus A320neo family aircraft to replace KLM and Transavia's Boeing 737 Next Generation. [64]
As of September 2024, the global A330 fleet of 1,471 aircraft had 12 years average aircraft age (≈2.5 years for A330neo), opened more than 350 new city pairs since the launch of the Boeing 787 in 2011, and accumulated more than 65 million flight hours since its entry into service with 99.2% operational reliability. [118]
The airline was established on 1 April 1991; [1] it started operations the same year. It was formed from the merger of NLM CityHopper and Netherlines.Following the 1991 merger, KLM Cityhopper had Europe's largest fleet composition of Fokker-built aircraft: the Fokker 50, 70 and 100.
At entry into service in 2018, sales were disappointing and A330 production was to be cut to 50 in 2019 down from 67 in 2017: while it was the widebody with the largest operator base with 1,390 deliveries since 1993, the fleet was still very young with only 46 aircraft retired. Airbus believed A330 operators would start fleet renewal beginning ...
The following is a list of orders, deliveries and backlog for the Airbus A330 by model as of 31 December 2024: Ord — number of aircraft ordered from Airbus by the specified customer; Del — number of aircraft delivered by Airbus to the specified customer; Bl — number of aircraft still to be delivered to the specified customer
The Airbus BelugaXL (A330-743L) is a large transport aircraft based on the Airbus A330-200F built by Airbus to replace the original Airbus BelugaST (Super Transporter) to transport very large aircraft components, such as wings. [3] The aircraft made its first flight on 19 July 2018, [1] and received its type certification on 13 November 2019. [3]