Dutch Airline KLM Asks EU to Deal With China’s ‘Unfair’ Competition

Chinese airlines have shorter flight times, lower costs, and have benefited from being allowed to use Russian airspace during the past two years.

KLM airplanes parked in Amsterdam on April 2, 2020. Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines called on the European Union to take measures to counter “unfair” competition from Chinese airlines.

“Europe can at least look at how we can prevent that unfair playing field by pricing it or looking at it in a different way,” KLM CEO Marjan Rintel told Dutch TV WNL on Oct. 7.