Since the 1st of February, the employees of KLM are mobilized to support their patron, Pieter Elbers. The executive director-general, who has spent his entire career in the house, can boast the good performance of the royal company, whose logo is surmounted by a stylised crown. For the past few years, KLM has become the good student of the group Air France-KLM.
Las. The hostile attitude of the officer in respect of his hierarchy could cost him his job. Pieter Elbers was promised at a great promotion, there are a few weeks yet. After having refused to present his candidacy as the number one of the group Air France-KLM, he was on the point of being named number two, alongside Ben Smith, the director-general. But the big boss has given it up. According to our information, he would not have appreciated the lack of trust evidence of Elbers towards her.
Ben Smith out of the game
Ben Smith does not appreciate or the refusal of the supervisory board of KLM to open for him the doors (as was the case with his predecessor, Jean-Marc Janaillac), or be put out of the game in the company Dutch. Thus, during negotiations with the pilots of Air France, Ben Smith was asked to Elbers to come to Paris for the HRD of KLM to present to the French of its agreement signed last year with the drivers. Repeated requests for three days before to get only the arrival of a member of the DRH.
According to informed sources, the boss of KLM would not be considered possible to meet the 150 top managers of KLM, for a meeting with Ben Smith, before resolve the end of January, when the threat to its future is clarified. The arrival of Ben Smith, mid-September, the video for the employees of the two companies could not be broadcast as planned at KLM… because of technical problems.
The Dutch politicians show their support to the chief executive officer of the company Dutch. The directors of Air France-KLM wonder if Elbers is a stranger to this mobilization. His fate will be referred to the 19 February, on the eve of the publication of the results of the group.
