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20
Strategy
Our two powerful
and coordinated hubs are amongst
the four largest in Europe
In terms of revenues, the Air France-KLM Group is now
the leading global air transport company thanks, notably,
to the combined power of the Air France and KLM
networks based, respectively, at the Paris-Charles de
Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol hubs. These hubs
concentrate short and medium-haul flows before
transferring them to long-haul flights: connecting
passengers account for 50% of the total at Paris-Charles
de Gaulle and 72% at Amsterdam-Schiphol.
The Air France and KLM hubs are synchronized around
six transfer waves at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and seven at
Amsterdam-Schiphol. In concentrating the arrivals and
departures of medium and long-haul flights, these transfer
waves offer a maximum number of flight connection
opportunities in under two hours. With 30,500 weekly
transfer opportunities in under two hours (summer 2008),
Air France-KLM passengers benefit from the most
extensive offer in Europe.
The hubway shuttle service linking Paris-Charles de
Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol
A hubway shuttle service of fifteen daily flights links Paris-
Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol, enabling the
Air France-KLM network to offer access to 258
destinations.
An experiment is also underway between Paris and
Amsterdam giving passengers greater freedom at the
airport and enabling automatic boarding for passengers
who so wish. Thanks to an individual card regrouping new
biometric technologies (integrated digital printing), RFID
(Radio Frequency IDentification) and thermal printing (the
reverse of the boarding card can be reinscribed up to 500
times), customers will soon be able to avoid queuing for
embarkation checks and board at will.