KLM: an Airline Outgrowing its Flag

Marc Dierikx

Chapter 5 in Flying the Flag, 1998, pp 126-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In May 1945 only a few European airlines were still flying. In Britain BOAC was run as a civilian branch of the RAF. In Germany the last remaining civil operations of Deutsche Luft Hansa had ceased amid the final battles of the war. Air France had gradually disappeared from view and would not reemerge before 1946. Swissair had ceased flying in 1943. Apart from BOAC, this left only two of the pre-war European airlines still operating: the Swedish carrier ABA, and the Royal Dutch Airline, KLM. That the latter should still be around in the European skies was extraordinary. Shortly after Holland’s capitulation in May 1940, KLM’s representatives in London had offered the services of KLM’s staff and what equipment the airline still possessed outside Holland to the British government. As a result, KLM was commissioned in August 1940 to operate a wartime service between Bristol and the Portuguese capital Lisbon under a charter agreement with BOAC. When the service was suspended in January 1946, KLM had carried 18108 passengers on its last remaining European route. 1

Keywords: Airline Industry; Home Base; Schedule Service; British Airway; International Airline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26951-8_5

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