·July 7, 2025

Lufthansa Group gets stiff Competition after SAS, KLM & Air France joine as a Team

No longer the Lufthansa Group, with Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian, Air Brussels, ITA being the only dominant airline group in Europe, Dutch-based KLM and Air France are aggressively laying the European trend of airline consolidation by acquiring a majority ownership in Scandinavian Airlines SAS. SOURCE: Lufthansa Group gets stiff Competition after SAS, KLM & Air France joine as a Team BY: eTurboNews | eTN

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