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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8643

12 February 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Towards conditional clearance of Air France/KLM merger

Brussels, 11/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - After final negotiation with the parties concerned, the European Commission decided on Wednesday evening to clear the merger between the airline companies Air France and KLM. The move will give rise to the largest airline group worldwide in terms of turnover (EUR 19.7 billion) and to the largest European group in terms of passengers carried annually (62.8 million). The Commission, which had still not formally confirmed this information at the time of...

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