<![CDATA[KLM Newsroom]]> https://news.klm.com/ en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:59:51 +0200 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:36:10 +0200 <![CDATA[KLM Newsroom]]> https://content.presspage.com/clients/150_162.jpg https://news.klm.com/ 144 KLM brings three leading chefs together at the Okura https://news.klm.com/klm-brings-three-leading-chefs-together-at-the-okura/ https://news.klm.com/klm-brings-three-leading-chefs-together-at-the-okura/233807KLM will be extending its cooperative relationship with three leading chefs who have been contributing towards the superior quality of meals served on board various KLM flights for some time now. Leading chef and Indonesian TV personality Farah Quinn, acclaimed chef Masanori Tomikawa and acclaimed chef Onno Kokmeijer of Ciel Bleu, met today for a culinary summit at the initiative of KLM and the Okura at the Hotel Okura Amsterdam. Cooperation with Onno Kokmeijer will even be expanded for the meals served in European Business Class (EBC), where he will also provide the starters with effect from 29 October.

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In October 2015, Onno Kokmeijer joined forces with his chef de cuisine Arjan Speelman for the debut as the first chefs to create the lunches and dinners served in EBC on the longer flights within Europe. KLM’s passengers are highly enthusiastic about the dishes created by Kokmeijer and Speelman. The duo will therefore be providing the starters for these flights as well. With effect from the end of October, these weekly rotating dishes will be served to EBC passengers in combination with the lunches and dinners.

Exclusive
Farah Quinn is the first Indonesian celebrity chef with whom KLM is cooperating. Passengers travelling in KLM’s World Business Class and Economy Class will be served exclusive meals created by the leading chef on the Jakarta – Kuala Lumpur and Singapore – Denpasar routes. Passengers travelling to Amsterdam will also be able to enjoy her dishes because the flight from Indonesia heads to Amsterdam via Kuala Lumpur.

Unique composition
KLM’s cooperation with leading chef Masanori Tomikawa, with his Michelin-star restaurants Yamazato and Sazanka in Hotel Okura Amsterdam, harks back to 2010. In cooperation with KLM, Tomikawa is responsible for the meals served on board flights to Japan. The Japanese dishes served in KLM’s World Business Class and Economy Class are inspired by Tomikawa. This cooperative relationship is unique because not only are the Japanese dishes served on flights from KLM’s home base Schiphol developed by the chef, but so are the Japanese dishes served on board flights from Japan to Amsterdam. In Japan, he heads up workshops to create the summer and winter menus and align them with preparations from Schiphol.

 

Pictures: Natascha Libbert 

]]> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:30:00 +0200 https://content.presspage.com/uploads/162/500_klmokura5oktober4oktober-mg-4557-nl.jpg?10000 https://content.presspage.com/uploads/162/klmokura5oktober4oktober-mg-4557-nl.jpg?10000 KLM Serves Cuisine of Jonnie Boer https://news.klm.com/klm-serveert-maaltijden-van-jonnie-boer-en/ https://news.klm.com/klm-serveert-maaltijden-van-jonnie-boer-en/3420 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will serve its World Business Class passengers meals created by leading Dutch chef Jonnie Boer of Restaurant De Librije. With the help of this culinary master, KLM offers the highest quality and celebrates its Dutch roots.

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De Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij is in 1919 opgericht en de oudste, nog onder haar oorspronkelijke naam opererende, luchtvaartmaatschappij ter wereld. In 2004 fuseerden Air France en KLM tot AIR FRANCE KLM. Zo ontstond een sterke Europese luchtvaartgroep, gebaseerd op twee krachtige merken en hubs, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol en Parijs Charles de Gaulle. Met behoud van eigen identiteit richt de groep zich op 3 kernactiviteiten: vervoer van passagiers, vracht en vliegtuigonderhoud.

In Nederland vormt KLM de kern van de KLM Groep waar ook KLM cityhopper en transavia.com deel van uitmaken. KLM bedient al haar bestemmingen met een moderne vloot en is met ruim 33.000 medewerkers wereldwijd actief. Een speler die voorop staat in de luchtvaartindustrie, met een betrouwbare operatie, die met bezieling en op een duurzame manier innoveert in klantgerichte producten.

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]]>Jonnie Boer and his wife Thérèse own and operate Restaurant de Librije in Zwolle. Crowned with no less than three Michelin stars, their restaurant is ranked among the top fifty in the world. Thérèse Boer is the restaurant’s hostess and sommelier. KLM will also be serving the “Lady Librije Range” – fine wines specially selected by Thérèse Boer – aboard its flights.

“KLM’s ongoing investment in passenger service is reflected by our decision to work with this Dutch master chef and sommelier,” said Erik Varwijk, Executive Vice President of KLM Commercial. “These exclusive meals are testimony to KLM’s pledge to renew its World Business Class product, and accentuate their Dutch origins.”

“It was a great adventure to create meals for KLM,” says Jonnie Boer. “As always, we have produced beautiful and pure dishes of high quality, all of which has given rise to lovely combinations of food and wine. We are delighted with this opportunity to give KLM passengers a taste of our culinary abilities.”

The dishes created by Jonnie Boer will be served from 1 December 2010 until the end of September 2011 on intercontinental flights originating in Amsterdam. KLM and Jonnie Boer have developed three different menus. From the start of the summer schedule, on 27 March 2011, the meals will be served on tableware created by leading Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.

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