KLM's general management is in the hands of its Executive Committee (Excom). This comprises the statutory managing directors and eight executive vice presidents of KLM's business units. The statutory managing directors - Chief Executive Officer Peter Hartman, Chief Financial Director Frédéric Gagey and Managing Director Jan Ernst de Groot - bear statutory responsibility for KLM and its policies.

The Supervisory Board - which monitors the statutory managing directors - comprises Kees Storm (chairman), Henri Martre (vice-chairman), Irene Asscher-Vonk, Jean-Didier Blanchet, Jean Peyrelevade, Henri Guillaume, Wim Kok, Remmert Laan, and Hans Smits.

As an independent airline, KLM takes part - along with Air France - in the management of the AIR FRANCE KLM holding company through its Group Executive Committee, which focuses on such group-related subjects as strategy, finance, commerce, technology, IT, procurement, and fleet development. The GEC has eleven members, including Leo van Wijk as vice-chairman of AIR FRANCE KLM's Board of Managing Directors, and Peter Hartman as KLM's President & CEO. The GEC sets and monitors the strategic course for AIR FRANCE KLM. The committee is headed by Jean-Cyril Spinetta of Air France.