{"id":372379,"date":"2026-02-20T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/europe-oldest-airlines-original-names\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:17","slug":"europes-oldest-airlines-still-flying-under-their-original-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=372379","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Oldest Airlines Still Flying Under Their Original Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s oldest airline, with its original name, is generally regarded as the Dutch flag carrier, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255005\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/klm\/\"  >KLM Royal Dutch Airlines<\/a><\/span>. Coincidentally, KLM is also regarded as the world&#8217;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 <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"19822\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-france-klm-merger\/\" >KLM has merged into Air France-KLM<\/a><\/span>. If that were to be disqualifying, then none of the ten oldest airlines are operating with their original names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KLM is considered to have the oldest airline name, with Qantas, Iberia, and Delta following with modest name changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1513,120,7221,612,1267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-europe","category-european-airlines","category-iberia","category-klm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372380,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372379\/revisions\/372380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}