How KLM Outsmarted Its OWN Takeover!

Air France and KLM had one of the most unusual mergers in history and the twist is how it worked. 🙋🏼‍♂️ Want to check out another airline that might be about to take over the world? If so, check out this video:    • 950 Planes On Order - Is This Airline Taki...   An airline was bought. The buyer was bigger, richer, and had the full weight of the French government behind it. Every analyst, aviation expert and armchair CEO said the same thing: the smaller airline would be absorbed, rebranded, and slowly disappear. That’s just what happens...except it didn't happen. More than twenty years later, that airline still flies its own planes, under its own name, from its own hub, run by its own management. KLM still answers to Amsterdam, not Paris. This is the story of the most unusual airline merger in history. Let's dive in and see not just how it worked, but why it worked! Timestamps 00:00 The Merger 00:46 The Contenders 01:41 The Troubles 02:55 The Deal 04:24 The Trust 05:55 The Irony 06:54 The Cracks 08:09 The Empire 09:43 The Meaning 10:46 The Rundown W H A T T O W A T C H N E X T ✈️ Want to see what's happening right now in aviation instead? If so, check out this video:    • The Brutal Maths Behind the World’s First ...   ❤️ Follow me on social media: ✅ Instagram:   / liftandthrustaviation   ✅ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@liftandthrus... #aviationnews #airbusvsboeing #aviation #airplanes