Europe’s Oldest Airlines Still Flying Under Their Original Names

The world’s oldest airline, with its original name, is generally regarded as the Dutch flag carrier, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Coincidentally, KLM is also regarded as the world’s oldest airline to be continuously operating. It is the clearest and oldest example of an airline not changing its name. As noted below, there is some room for dispute as KLM has merged into Air France-KLM. If that were to be disqualifying, then none of the ten oldest airlines are operating with their original names.