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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]
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 ...
KLM's fleet expanded with the addition of new versions of the Lockheed Constellation and Lockheed Electra, of which KLM was the first European airline to fly. [10] KLM Vickers Viscount 803. On 31 December 1953, the founder and president of KLM, Albert Plesman, died at the age of 64. [3] [4] He was succeeded as president by Fons Aler. [26]
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.
New destinations were added, and an ex Viasa DC-9 was also added to the fleet. The period of 1968 and 1969 was crucial for ALM. By January 1, 1969, the Antillean government took a 96% share from KLM and ALM became a state-owned company. An ex-KLM Douglas DC-8 was chartered to further use the booming tourist industry. Now ALM was able to fly ...
This would effectively mean an intercontinental operation to include only the wide-body fleet of KLM and a European fleet operating the short to medium-haul routes as a separate entity, including the current KLM Boeing 737 fleet and the entire KLM Cityhopper fleet. The plan proved unpopular with unions and the CEO at the time and was parked.
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 ...