Word: klm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible competitors for the postwar air enumerated by Trippe: KLM (Dutch), BOAC (British), Soviet Air Trust, Air France, SILA (Swedish), Trans-Canada Air Lines, South African Airways, Lufthansa (German), LATI (Italian), Dai Nippon (Japan...
...there was a joker after all: up to now KLM, TACA and BWIA had been doing business out of Miami on special charter arrangements. Now they are subject to the same priorities setup as Pan Am, the same CAB regulations...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
...American's domain is big Eastern Air Lines, which wants to compete with Pan American pretty much everywhere, presumably with Douglas DC-35 from its crowded U.S. routes. Lowell Yerex of Central American flying fame asked for two routes each for his TACA and British West Indian Airways. KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines asked a route to the Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still...
...smart Japanese pilot would shoot down a Pan Am plane. Japanese external airline expansion probably has come to a temporary end. At Singapore, Pan Am will hook up with Dutch-owned KLM airliners flying to The Netherland East Indies and Australia, British flying boats leaving Singapore for northern and western points...