Europe’s Major Airline Groups May Get Bigger Despite Challenges

Air France aircraft

Air France-KLM is one of two major airline groups bidding for a stake in TAP Air Portugal, with Lufthansa Group the other.

Credit: Rob Finlayson
For over a decade, Europe’s three major network carrier groups—Air France-KLM Group, International Airlines Group (IAG) and Lufthansa Group—have warned that European Union (EU) red tape was sapping their competitiveness. The question is whether the latest round of airline consolidation, a...
Victoria Moores

Victoria Moores joined Air Transport World as our London-based European Editor/Bureau Chief on 18 June 2012. Victoria has nearly 20 years’ aviation industry experience, spanning airline ground operations, analytical, journalism and communications roles.

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