Air France-KLM says airports key to future success = = = = Sunday May 9, 2:00 PM EDT = PARIS, May 9 (Reuters) - Access to Paris and Amsterdam airports will be k= ey to the success of last week's marriage between Air France and Dutch ai= rline KLM, Air France-KLM (AIRF) Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta has said. Spinetta said in an interview with Le Figaro daily, released on Sunday ah= ead of publication, that accepting new members including KLM into the Sky= team alliance would be important for the future of the airline grouping. "I am certain that Europe is going to suffer very soon from a lack of qua= lity airport structures," Spinetta said, when asked why he was confident = the newly merged Air France-KLM airline would be a success. "We will therefore be very fortunate in being able to match the potential= of Roissy and Schipol (airports) with the competence of our two great co= mpanies," he said, adding that the newly unified airline would carry more= weight and be better able to assure jobs. = He accepted that Skyteam, already the world's third biggest airline allia= nce, would become more difficult to manage once KLM, Continental and Nort= hwest (NWAC) come on board, as he expects, in September 2004. "The functioning (of the alliance) does risk becoming more complicated," = he said. "We have to find a way of managing it; everything remains to be = invented. It is a very important issue for the future." Asked whether Skyteam, which already includes Delta (DAL), Aeromexico and= Korean Air among other airlines, would one day welcome a low-cost operat= or, Spinetta said the group already had one in the form of KLM affiliate,= Basicair. Air France's takeover of KLM to create the world's top airline by revenue= s was completed last week. = =A92004 Reuters Limited. = Roger EWROPS