For Pieter Elbers, the chief executive of KLM (the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM) for the last eight years, the most difficult period was not while the planes were in the air, but when they were grounded due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ekathimerini.com reports.
Speaking to Kathimerini newspaper in one of his last interviews as CEO, the 51-year-old, who was recently in Athens at a joint KLM-Air France event for the shipping industry, said the crisis faced by airlines in the last two years was the biggest since World War II.
In this unfavorable environment, the crews looking for alternative means of transportation incre/airlines.iata.orgased while the demand for air and sea transportation rose, with KLM specializing in the movement of crews and marine executives (Marine & Offshore Travel).
Nevertheless, the systemic risk posed by Covid-19 in aviation seems to have abated, with rising costs and price increases now being the immediate priority.
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