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KLM was set up by Albert Plesman on 7 October 1919 and started operations on 19 May 1920. [1] The first route served was the Amsterdam to London, flown with DH.9As that carried just two passengers on a charter basis. [2]: 13 Two Fokker F.IIs that were delivered in September 1920 () were later deployed on this very first route.
KLM's first of eight Boeing 787-10 aircraft was delivered on 28 June 2019; it featured centennial markings. [13] On 19 June 2013, KLM had ordered seven Airbus A350-900s. In June 2019, Air France–KLM announced that KLM will not take up any of the group's ordered A350s because of fleet rationalization purposes. [citation needed]
KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM-IIB) was founded on 1 August 1947 at Kemayoran Airport as a KLM subsidiary (due to the dissolution of Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM)), [1] and all of the aircraft in KNILM fleet were later transferred to KLM-IIB.
KLM West-Indisch Bedrijf fleet Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Notes Convair CV-340: 9 1953 1964 Douglas C-47 Skytrain: 10 1946 1960 Douglas C-54 Skymaster: 8 1946 1954 Douglas DC-5: 2 1950 1951 Douglas DC-6: 7 1957 1963 fokker F.VIII: 2 1937 1939 Fokker F.XVIII: 2 1935 1938 Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior: 1 1944 1945 Lockheed Model 14 ...
The New York to St Maarten route (1970 to 1973) was flown with a chartered Boeing 727-100 provided by Braniff International Airlines and also at one point with an Overseas National Airways (ONA) McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30. The Fokker F-27s were replaced by a third DC-9-15 also from KLM and ALM became an all-jet passenger airline for a short time.
KLM Douglas DC-8-63 at London Heathrow Airport in 1982. The DC-8 was the mainstay of the KLM narrowbody jet fleet. In 1980, KLM carried 9,715,069 passengers. In 1983, it reached an agreement with Boeing to upgrade ten of its Boeing 747-200 aircraft (Three 747-200Bs and seven 747-200Ms) with the stretched-upper-deck modification.
The type was also chartered from KLM for deployment on the Caribbean routes. [15] By April 1966 (), the first DC-8-50 was already forming part of the company's fleet along with the three Convair 880s, while an additional DC-8-50 was on order. [16] To complement these two DC-8-50s, the carrier ordered two Douglas DC-8-63s in early 1967. [17]
The aircraft fleet, the majority of which retained the Buzz livery, flew several of the original Buzz routes and some Ryanair routes that had been operated by 737-200s under the Ryanair call sign. However, the BAe 146 aircraft were returned to KLM in January 2004 and the 737s continued operating the remaining routes that were not dropped ...