{"id":5272,"date":"2019-06-28T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2019-06-28T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:56:08","slug":"air-france-and-klm-to-swap-boeing-and-airbus-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Air France and KLM to Swap Boeing and Airbus Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, June 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Air France-KLM said its separate Air France and KLM airline units would be swapping over some remaining orders from Boeing and Airbus, in a move which Air France KLM said would help its fleet run more efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The swap means that in the 2021-2023 timeframe, the six remaining Boeing 787 ordered for Air France will be transferred to KLM, and the current 7 Airbus A350-900s on order for KLM will be transferred to Air France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is the first step towards harmonizing and simplifying the Air France-KLM Group fleet at its two major airlines,&#8221; said Air France KLM CEO Benjamin Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Michel Rose)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF.jpg 898w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AF-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"991\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/KLM-1.jpg?fit=640%2C331\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/KLM-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/KLM-1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/KLM-1-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/KLM-1-1024x529.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France-KLM said its separate Air France and KLM airline units would be swapping over some remaining orders from Boeing and Airbus, in a move which Air France KLM said would help its fleet run more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,799,2203,868,1103],"tags":[42,780,49,539,47,420,502,160,41,99,4261,1483,207,130,412,995,100,1288,5534,5535,1691,1658,1916],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-42","tag-780","tag-a350","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-airline","tag-airplane","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-dreamliner","tag-efficiency","tag-fleet","tag-france","tag-klm","tag-news","tag-order","tag-paris","tag-reuters","tag-swap","tag-transfer","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}