KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

✅ Trip Verified | Checked our luggage at LAX to Amsterdam on June 24 , 2022.Wait in Las Vegas was 3 hours. Arrived on time in Amsterdam. Immigration was chaotic and took 1 hour to clear. No luggage seen. Told to wait. Unable to locate for 2 hours more. Told left in Las Vegas. Told will deliver to hotel. Had to leave for the river cruise on 26 th. Airline notified of the cruise locations for the next eight days. No one answers the phone for 30 minutes and then disconnects. Communication is only on line to update our address. Told luggage found and to be shipped to Stuttgart. All three pieces arrived on three different days. No luggage received till July 3rd on the boat. KLM notified of our address in London till July 6th, then to be delivered to us in the USA. No person helpful at the airport. No person reachable by phone. No response via email from KLM on their initiative to keep us informed. No instructions as to our rights and compensation from KLM. Incompetently run company with poor customer service.

✅ Trip Verified | First flight canceled. Got rebooked and arrived several hours later than planned. Return flight canceled. Rebooked to a flight the upcoming day. This flight just got canceled too. Don’t know when I’ll return home. Changing the airline now would cost me a couple of hundred euros extra, not to mention the amount of extra flying hours and connections that comes with it, and costs for extra hotel nights, also missing a very important meeting because of this. Never flying with KLM again!

✅ Trip Verified | I cancelled my connecting flight with no option to rebook it. The customer service line closes at 8 pm and after this only Whatsapp or messenger with a chatbot is available. After waiting for 1 hour in the queue for the actual agent to connect with me he gave me an option for a new ridiculous route with no guarantee that my flight won't be cancelled again. I spend over 3 hours on chat only to get the short message at the end that he is passing my info to the booking team and if the flights are still available they will rebook it just after he gives me the option for another day. He said that my options might not be available anymore since my request took a long time! it was him sitting silently for more than 3 hours! The ridiculous airline, non-existing customer service. After spending 4 hours online I still don't know If I will be flying as an agent last message was please do not answer to this message!

✅ Trip Verified | Where should I start? First our flight was delayed for more than 2 hours in Accra, there was no email or text from KLM. While on the way to Amsterdam, while using their free Wi-Fi for the last hour of the flight I saw an email pop up from there but I was unable to check it so I WhatsApp my brother my email login to check. The email from KLM flight said that you have missed your flight to London Heathrow so we have rebooked you on a new BA flight that was 14.55pm almost 8 hours later than our original flight since we were supposed to get to LHR 9.00am. Long lines at the airport since you have to now get new tickets. No one to help you. Imagine being in long lines with 2 year old twins who are tired and hungry. When we arrived to London 4.20pm we received none of our bags. Trying to contact KLM and they keep saying to go online to make a claim. Online when we put in the booking number it says it cannot be found. This was since Monday/Tuesday up to now there has been no call or email from KLM. Very horrible service. I will never fly KLM again.

✅ Trip Verified | Customer service is very poor. I attempted to purchase cabin baggage and after 3 attempts to call I was told I must wait and purchase at the desk on the day of my flight. They would not provide me with a price either. Upon arrival at the airport for my flight I was quoted a price of 95 Euro for 23kg. I would not have taken an extra bag if I was provided this price before traveling to the airport. There needs to be better customer service where a customer can be provided with this information ahead of time. By taking this additional cost into consideration it would have been much more affordable to travel with a different airline that allowed cabin baggage at an affordable price. I will not be flying with KLM again.

Not Verified | KLM waited 2 1/2 hours for delayed passengers to arrive 1 by 1. 90 passengers cost us 2 1/2hrs. No water and no changes made for connecting passengers. In 8 hours. The purser mocked saying crew don’t organise taxis either. Dumped passengers in Vancouver. No ground crew. It was survival of the fittest. The usual ‘can do’ attitude of KLM was changed to we will ignore passengers. 2 1/2 hr delay was a cost avoidance exercise by KLM corporate to get a full plane. Crew/captain did not ask us to give priority to connecting passengers for exiting. Captain praised the crews non existing efforts to secure alt flights.

✅ Trip Verified | Only one counter open for baggage drop off, thus long line. We reached baggage line 100 minutes before boarding and still in the line when boarding time started. None of the staff were courteous enough to take passengers ahead who's boarding time has started. We had to run with kids and not sure if we will make the flight through security. Gate staff behaving as if it is our fault they had one counter open to take baggage. Lot of anxiety, passengers from back jumping in front, passengers from later flights telling us what to do. Very bossy and annoying. mismanagement. Incompetent staff thinking we just made it as if it was our fault.

✅ Trip Verified | Until this time, I had too many flights without any problems. However, the last KLM experience was horrible for me. 21st June, I had a flight from Mexico City to Frankfurt am Main via Amsterdam. Because of the 1 hour 45 minute waiting time in Amsterdam, everything was looking good for me. I went to Mexico City airport 3 hours ago because of the precaution of some long waiting times, but check-in and baggage drop transactions were extremely quick. I am really appreciative for that. However, when I went to gate for boarding, boarding had not started. We have waited so long and after 1 hour 30 minutes from original departure time we have departed. When we were in flight, the hostess announced please check your e-mail, sms or mobile application for the connecting flight update. When we landed in Amsterdam, of course my other Frankfurt plane has gone and KLM checked in for a soonest Frankfurt flight for me and for this flight they gave me sky priority. Because of the sky priority, I had also tracking bags section in mobile application. When I tried to track my bag, there was only one notification for check-in, after that nothing happened. I had understood that probably they lost my baggage. After we landed to Frankfurt am Main, I have waited for my baggage and it did not come. I went to lost baggage desk and she said to me my baggage is still in Amsterdam and in 1-2 days we are going to send your baggage directly to your home address and because of the 1-2 days situation I was happy. But, currently I am still waiting for my baggage and I need to go to another country tomorrow morning. My personal care products, some of my medicines and other important things are in that luggage and currently, I am really in bad situation. I have never forget this horrible experience.

✅ Trip Verified | There is unfortunately no way to give zero stars for the experience I have had with KLM. Flight was late arriving to Geneva and I was supposed to fly to Ghana from Amsterdam so missed my connecting flight. There were no flights that day so had to fly the next day. I was told in Amsterdam I would get a refund for the delay and also had to take a covid test as the one I had would have no longer been valid, which I was also told I would be reimbursed for. This was on 10 Dec 2021. After following up regularly I was told each time that my claim was being processed which I now know was a not the truth as on 10 June I received a message saying "Thank you for your communication dated 11 December 2021. I regret the unintentional delay in responding to you". Today I received a response saying "the flight was delayed due to the late arrival of the incoming aircraft as a consequence of adverse weather conditions", without further explanation, and as such I was not entitled compensation, or refund for the covid test which on the KLM website would be considered as "unforeseen expense"(which you could claim for). I am highly confused as to what the adverse weather conditions was. They simply sent this one line after 6 months of my follow up without providing any evidence even though as per the EU air passenger rights it says "To be exempted from paying compensation, the airline must prove that: i) there is a link between the extraordinary circumstances and the delay or the cancellation, and ii) the delay or cancellation could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken." KLM are unfortunately complacent, they are very comfortable in delivering awful customer service experience. Avoid this airline at all cost because they do not care.

✅ Trip Verified | The flight from London was late so we missed the connecting flight to Washington DC. When we landed, I got a text saying I had been rebooked on another flight that left in 9 mins from when we landed. I got off the plane and tried to find the flight and gate for the new flight but it was not on the screen. I literally had to walk 15 minutes before I could find any KLM staff members. They would prefer you just use a self transfer kiosk. Well, I went to the kiosk and it froze. I tried to go to another kiosk and it said I was still logged on. I’m frantic thinking my flight leaves soon, and there’s literally no one to talk to. I asked staff from other airlines where can I find any KLM staff. Finally found a place and of course there’s no one there. Nor at the next place. Only the third desk and there’s about 100 people in line with the same frustrations as me! No real line, no directions. There’s only 2 people trying to help 100 tired, stuck, angry people. The staff were super lovely and tried to be helpful but it was obvious KLM is trying to save money on staffing. Anyway, my flight is rebooked to 26 hours later and there’s no other airlines that KLM work with that go to DC? In addition to this, the seats on the plane have no leg room and don’t recline. Stay away from KLM!