KLM fleet

This article is about the mainline KLM fleet, including the historical fleets of KLM. For information about the fleet of KLM Cityhopper, see KLM Cityhopper.

The Dutch flag carrier airline KLM operates a fleet of 107 aircraft. The narrow-body fleet is composed of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft which will be replaced by the Airbus A320neo family aircraft in 2024. Airbus A330, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft are used primarily on long-haul flights. In September 2023, Air France-KLM announced an order for 50 Airbus A350s. These will replace the group's remaining Airbus A330s and Boeing 777-200ERs, and will be split between Air France and KLM.^[1][2]

Current fleet

As of October 2024^[update], KLM operates the following aircraft:^[2][3]

KLM fleet

Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers[3]					Notes
			J	W	Y+	Y	Total
Airbus A320neo	—	87	TBA				180	Deliveries from July 2024 to replace Boeing 737 Next Generation. Order to be shared between KLM and subsidiaries Transavia and Transavia France. Order with 60 options.[4]
Airbus A321neo	2		30	—	6	191	227[5]
Airbus A330-200	6	—	18	—	36	210	264	To be retired and replaced by Airbus A350-900.[6]
Airbus A330-300	5	—	30	—	40	222	292
Airbus A350-900	—	50[7]	34	26	33	238	331[8]	Order with 40 options.[7] These will be shared between Air France and KLM, and will be delivered from 2026 to 2030.[7][9] To replace all remaining Airbus A330s and Boeing 777-200ERs.[7]
Airbus A350-1000	—		34	28	32	297	391[8]
Boeing 737-700	6	—	20	—	6	106	132	To be retired and replaced by Airbus A320neo family.[4]
Boeing 737-800	31	—	20	—	6	150	176
Boeing 737-900	5	—	20	—	30	132	182
Boeing 777-200ER	15	—	35	24	54	175	288	To be retired in the future and replaced by Airbus A350-1000.[6]
Boeing 777-300ER	16	—	35	24	56	266	381
Boeing 787-9	13	—	30	21	48	176	275
Boeing 787-10	10	5	38	28	39	213	318	Deliveries until 2024.[10]
KLM Cargo fleet
Airbus A350F	—	4	Cargo					To replace Boeing 747-400BCF and Boeing 747-400ERF.[11] To be operated by Martinair.
Boeing 747-400BCF	1	—	Cargo					To be replaced by Airbus A350F.[11] Operated by Martinair.
Boeing 747-400ERF	3	—	Cargo
Total	111	146

Gallery

• KLM current fleet
• 
  Airbus A330-200
• 
  Airbus A330-300
• 
  Boeing 737-700
• 
  Boeing 737-800
• 
  Boeing 737-900 in SkyTeam livery
• 
  Boeing 747-400F
• 
  Boeing 777-200ER
• 
  Boeing 777-300ER in "Orange Pride" special livery
• 
  Boeing 787-9
• 
  Boeing 787-10 in "100 Years" special livery

Historical fleet

Over the years, KLM has operated the following aircraft types (list incomplete):^{[citation needed]}

KLM historical fleet

Aircraft	Total	Introduced	Retired	Notes
Airbus A310-200	11	1983	1997	Most were sold to FedEx as freighters.
BAC 1-11-301AG	1	1968	1968	Leased from British Eagle. Operated from Rotterdam to London service in full KLM colours.
Boeing 737-200	3	1988	1995
Boeing 737-300	19	1986	2011
Boeing 737-400	19	1989	2011
Boeing 747-200B	4	1971	1991
	1		1977	PH-BUF crashed as Flight 4805.
Boeing 747-200M	7	1975	1986
Boeing 747-200B/SUD	3	1985	2003
Boeing 747-200/SUD/SF	2	1998	2003	Converted from two Boeing 747-200M/SUD aircraft.
Boeing 747-200M/SUD	7	1985	2003	PH-BUK preserved at Lelystad Aerodrome in 2004.
Boeing 747-300M	3	1983	2003	Largest operator of its type along with Swissair and Singapore Airlines.
Boeing 747-400	5	1989	2020	European launch customer.[12] Retired early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boeing 747-400M	20	1989	2021	3 aircraft put back into service for cargo retired in October 2020. Largest scheduled operator.
Boeing 767-300ER	12	1995	2007
Carley Werkspoor Jumbo	1	1930	1940	Only 1 aircraft was ever built, PH-AFI.
Convair 240	12	1948	1959
Convair 340	13	1953	1964
De Havilland DH.9	4	1921	1926
De Havilland DH.16	4	1920	1924	Leased from Aircraft Transport and Travel.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster	2	1945	1959
Douglas C-54A Skymaster	16
Douglas C-54B Skymaster	3
Douglas DC-2	19	1934	1946
Douglas DC-3	58	1936	1964
Douglas DC-4	6	1946	1958
Douglas DC-5	4	1940	1941
Douglas DC-6	8	1948	1963
	1		1952	PH-TPJ crashed as Flight 592.
Douglas DC-6A	2	1953	1961
Douglas DC-6B	6	1952	1963
	1		1954	PH-DFO crashed as Flight 608.
Douglas DC-7C	15	1953	1966
Douglas DC-8	22	1960	1983
	1		1968	PH-DCL crashed as Viasa Flight 897.
Douglas DC-8-63	11	1967	1985
Douglas DC-9-15	6	1966	1989
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 (DC-9-32 model)	12	1967	1989
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30C (DC-9-33RC model)	6
Fokker F.II	2	1920	1927
Fokker F.III	14	1921	1930
Fokker F.VII	5	1924	1936
Fokker F.VIIa	15	1925	1940
Fokker F.VIIb/3m	10	1928	1936
Fokker F.VIII	7	1927	1940
Fokker F.IX	2	1930	1936
Fokker F.XII	8	1931	1936
Fokker F.XVIII	5	1932	1946
Fokker F.XX	1	1933	1936
Fokker F.XXII	3	1935	1939
Fokker F.XXXVI	1	1935	1939
Ilyushin Il-62	7	1971	1972	Joint operation with Aeroflot. Used for the Tokyo ~ Moscow ~ Amsterdam service.[13]
Koolhoven FK-33	1	1925	1927
Koolhoven FK-40	1	1929	1936	Only 1 aircraft was ever built: PH-AES.
Koolhoven FK-43	9	1932	1940
Koolhoven FK-48	1	1934	1940	Used as a trainer aircraft.
Lockheed L-049 Constellation	6	1946	1950
Lockheed L-749 Constellation	13		1953
Lockheed L-749A Constellation	7		1960
Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation	11	1953	1966
	1		1954	PH-LKY crashed as Flight 633.
	1		1957	PH-LKT crashed as Flight 844.
Lockheed L-1049G Constellation	6		1966
Lockheed L-1049H Constellation	2		1966
	1		1958	PH-LKM crashed as Flight 607-E.
Lockheed L-188C Electra	12	1959	1969
			1961	PH-LLM crashed as Flight 823.
Lockheed Super Electra-14	5	1938	1948
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30	12	1972	1995
McDonnell Douglas MD-11	10	1993	2014	Last passenger commercial operator. Three aircraft are currently stored.
Stearman Hammond Y-1S	1	1937	1939	Used as a trainer aircraft.
Vickers V.803 Viscount	9	1957	1966

Fleet development

Fleet strategy

KLM's first of 8 Boeing 787-10 aircraft was delivered on 28 June 2019; it featured 100th anniversary markings.^[14]

On 19 June 2013, KLM had ordered 7 Airbus A350-900s. In June 2019, Air France–KLM announced that KLM will not take up any of the group's ordered A350s, because of fleet rationalization purposes.^{[citation needed]}

CEO Ben Smith has announced at Air France's Investor Day (5 November 2019) in Paris that "in the near future" KLM will only use the 777 and 787 as their long-haul fleet, retiring their 13 A330s.^[15] This move would have made KLM an all-Boeing carrier, however KLM announced in December 2021 that an order was placed for 100 A320neo and A321neo aircraft, which is to be shared between it and Transavia. This order will replace KLM's short-haul Boeing 737 fleet, alongside Transavia's.^{[citation needed]}

There is considerable speculation on the replacement of KLM’s aging 777 and A330 fleet, of which the oldest 777-200s date back to 2003. On the 23rd of August 2023, it was reported that in contrast to prior speculation that KLM was considering Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X aircraft types, it will likely opt to further increase the numbers of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to the existing fleet.^[16]

Special liveries

KLM has several aircraft painted in special liveries; they include:

• PH-BVA, a Boeing 777-300ER, features an orange forward fuselage that fades into the standard blue to commemorate the Netherlands national team's participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[17]
• PH-KZU, a Fokker F70, has been applied with a special livery featuring Anthony Fokker, the founder of Fokker, commemorating the airline's long-standing history with Fokker aircraft and the phase-out of the Fokker 70 aircraft in October 2017.^[18]
• Several aircraft bear the silver SkyTeam alliance livery, including PH-BVD (a 777-300ER), PH-BXO (a 737-900), and PH-EZX (a KLM Cityhopper ERJ-190).^{[citation needed]}
• PH-BKA, a Boeing 787-10, features the standard KLM livery with a 100 wrapped around its lettering on the plane, this is because of the 100 years of being an established airline.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of KLM destinations

References

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