How KLM Is Building The Anti-British Airways

For decades, British Airways built one of the world’s most powerful long-haul networks. But it left behind a problem it never solved: how to get the rest of Britain to Heathrow. While BA pulled back from regional flying, a Dutch airline stepped in. KLM quietly built a UK-wide feeder network from cities British Airways abandoned, routing millions of passengers through Amsterdam instead of London. Today, a foreign carrier connects more of Britain to the world than Britain’s own flag carrier. And once you understand why, hub aviation never looks the same again.