Press release

Amstelveen & Paris 12th of September 2017

KLM-Air France announces that after weeks of negotiation with share holders it has been agreed upon that the entirety of the KLM brand and operations will be sold to the Dutch investment firm De Gulden Leeuw. To exact details of this transaction will not be disclosed as will be amounts paid and received. Considering that operations have remained largely seperately the hand over should be completed in a matter of weeks and both companies will pursue their own ways once more under their own names. KLM and Air France will however for the foreseeable future continue to work together under the Flying Blue program and both will remain part of the Skyteam alliance. The KLM Subsidiaries of KLM Cityhopper, KLM Asia, Transavia and Martinair will remain under the KLM brand and are part of this transaction.

Press release

Groningen 13th of September 2017

It is with great pleasure that we at the De Gulden Leeuw can indeed confirm that acquisition of de Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij better known internationally as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Considering the size of this acquisition we will dissolve the De Gulden Leeuw entirely into the KLM brand and operate from here under the KLM brand completely privately owned and operated. The ability to be able to take over the worlds oldest operating airline is a dream come true for many of us, we are proud of our history and we fully aim to continue that history and improve upon what we have every single day. We also want to make clear that this does not mean there will be job losses or anything along those lines, we plan to grow and not downsize, we will also keep the announced profit share program in place as we believe this is very good thing to have. As for all our passengers service remains as you where used to and changes will be made gradually over time to improve upon it part of which includes a fleet expansion and replacement program. For this we will enter talks with all major manufacturers shortly.  Any further plans will be announced shortly after they have been finalized.

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Bio: Alicia Deirde DeVries
Born from a farmers family in the north eastern part of the Groningen province in The Netherlands life was quite good for the single child. However it swiftly became clear that farming did not flow  in her vains, economics however clearly did as she loved to delve into the numbers and even negotiate on her parents behalves. Her love from economics and well making money never ceased even as she was studying at the University of Groningen she kept at it which perhaps did not help her grades, but she never had any plans to use her papers to find a job. Instead after just 2 years she dropped out and started her own small investment business De Gulden Leeuw (named after Dutch currency and the lions linked to the royal house, but also to the waponshield of the province of her birth). It did not take to long for her to grow the business swiftly during which she showed a rare sense of ethics not commonly found by people who chase money and certainly not those who run investment businesses. Her ways of investing for growth or even taking over the whole business paid off. However she was not shy about spinning off successful projects so that she could use the money to start an even larger project. Now however with nearly 20 years of doing that she made the most insane call of all some would argue, by going all in to buy the national flag carrier KLM. Whatever her plans may be it should be clear she is not going to be pleased with a status quo, but can she really manage to compete with airlines like British Airways and Ethiad?

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Jep people it has come to this I am going to leave my beloved VC10s behind for now (don't worry they will make a return in the KLM livery) and focus on a bit more of a semi realistic airline and what better airline to take over than the oldest one still in operation and my nations flag carrier KLM (not to mention which other airline has a King on their employee listing? )

More will of course come to this topic I had planned to do tons yesterday, but stuff happened so now here is a brief teaser as I spend some time collecting what I need