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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 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.
During World War II, most aircraft were used by the RAAF, however limited operations continued within Australia, to/from Singapore and on the Australia-England route. [5] The airline is the " Oldest continually operating under original name and ownership, unmerged ", world"" Third oldest airline by foundation date " and the " Oldest airline in ...
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.
In 1924, KLM launched a service from Amsterdam to Batavia (as Jakarta was then known), the world’s longest air route at the time. In 1946, it became the first European airline to begin scheduled ...
KLM Interinsulair Office in Waingapu, (1949). Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Interinsulair Bedrijf Batavia (KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf or simply KLM-IIB; English: Royal Dutch Interinsular Airline Services Batavia) was an airline based in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and the predecessor to Garuda Indonesia.
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 ...