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He used to fly domestic routes for KLM as a co-pilot, neat! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39946532 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39946532
by rzzzt 4y ago
He used to fly domestic routes for KLM as a co-pilot, neat! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39946532 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39946532
- t0mas88 4y agoThere aren't any domestic KLM routes, the country is roughly the size of the New York area :-) He used to fly KLM cityhopper which is KLM's "regional airline" in US terms, going across most of Europe. Then he transitioned to the 737 because the government bought a 737 BBJ as their new private jet. The government jet is operated by KLM, so the king can fly it as first officer together with a KLM captain. Fun fact: There is an agreement with the pilots union that the first officer that got replaced by the king operating a flight gets paid as if they flew it.
- zabzonk 4y ago> There aren't any domestic KLM routes, the country is roughly the size of the New York area i don't know about now, but certainly in the 90s you could get a flight from Eindhoven to Schiphol. i remember trying to get from Eindhoven to London on the phone and being told there were no seats - i'd have to fly to Schiphol (deep gloom on my part). Luckily, when i turned up at check-in, the lovely KLM girl on the desk said "No you don't need to do that - we'll fit you in on the Heathrow flight" I must say that of all of the airlines i flew with, I probably liked KLM the best
- t0mas88 3y agoThat's a long time ago. Even longer ago you could have done Twente airport to Amsterdam. But none of those exist anymore.
- rzzzt 4y agoOops! It sounded entirely feasible, the "Cityhopper" designation and seeing the tiny jet threw me off. I first read about this in an in-flight magazine; the other story was about the PM who arrived on bicycle and left it outside the palace while paying the King a visit after the election.