KLM destinations

KLM serves 2 domestic and 133 international destinations in 66 countries (except seasonal services but including cargo flights). Following is a list of destinations the airline and its subsidiaries KLM Cargo and KLM Cityhopper fly to according to their scheduled services, as of April 2013.^[1]

History

KLM was set up by Albert Plesman on 7 October 1919 and started operations on 19 May 1920.^[2] The first route served was the Amsterdam–London one, flown with DH.9As that carried just two passengers on a charter basis.^[3]:13 Two Fokker F.IIs that were delivered in September 1920 (1920-09) were later deployed on this very first route.^[4]:1014 Intercontinental flights were started with Fokker F.VII equipment in November 1924 (1924-11), serving the Dutch East Indies,^[5]:36 although it was not until 1931 that regular services on this line were implemented.^[6] It normally took 11 or 12 days to complete the 9,000-mile (14,000 km) long flight between Amsterdam and Batavia, calling at Budapest, Athens, Cairo, Baghdad, Bushire, Jask, Karachi, Jodhpur, Allahabad, Calcutta, Akyab, Rangoon, Bangkok, Medan and Palembang.^[6] In 1926, the Rotterdam–Amsterdam–Copenhagen run was extended to Malmö.^[7]:416

A KLM Boeing 777-300ER on approach to Changi Airport in Singapore

Singapore was first served in May 1933 (1933-05), when it was taken over from KNILM and added as an intermediate stop for the Amsterdam–Batavia line.^[8] By April 1934 (1934-04), Berlin, Hamburg and Liverpool were already part of the European route network.^[9] In May that year, KLM became the first airline that linked Continental Europe with the North of England, when the Amsterdam–Hull route was inaugurated;^[10] the Amsterdam–Liverpool service was re-routed via Doncaster in mid-1936.^[11] By April 1939 (1939-04), the following twenty-one lines were operative: Amsterdam–Berlin, Amsterdam–Bremen–Hamburg, Amsterdam–Christiansand–Oslo, Amsterdam–Copenhagen–Malmo, Amsterdam–Copenhagen–Norrkoping–Stockholm, Amsterdam–Copenhagen–Stockholm, Amsterdam–Eindhoven, Amsterdam–Groningen–Leeuwarden–Amsterdam, Amsterdam–Leipzig–Budapest–Athens–Alexandria–Lydda–Baghdad–Basra–Jask–Karachi–Jodhpur–Allahabad–Calcutta–Rangoon–Bangkok–Penang–Medan–Singapore–Palembang–Batavia–Bandoeng that connected with KNILM services, Amsterdam–Manchester–Liverpool, Amsterdam–Twente, Amsterdam–Texel, Amsterdam–London, Amsterdam–Paris, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Basle–Zurich, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Cologne, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Frankfort–Milan–Rome, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Haamstede–Flushing–Knocke/Zoute, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–London, Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Prague–Vienna–Budapest, and Paris–Copenhagen–Stockholm.^[12]

With an intermediate stop at Espinho, the Amsterdam–Lisbon route was opened in April 1940 (1940-04).^[13] Initially, these flights carried freight and mail, connected at Lisbon with Pan American Airways Clipper services to New York and had a subsidy from the Dutch Post Office.^[14]

List

Countries served by KLM as of December 2015^[15]

See also

• Air France-KLM

References