Word: klm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa. In Trippe's view, only a single U.S. flag carrier can compete successfully on the North Atlantic routes, where both Pan Am and TWA have lately suffered heavy traffic losses to state-owned foreign airlines (BOAC, Air France, KLM, etc.). Pan Am also fears a threatened invasion of its traditional Latin American preserve by Russia's Aeroflot, which has been quietly negotiating its way across Africa toward Rio de Janeiro...
...better-off who wish to leave still crowd the Pan Am and KLM flights at the rate of 2,000 a week, having been compelled to leave all their money behind...
...Dutch, Indonesia's activity in the area seemed suspiciously like the prel ude to a full-scale invasion, and they rushed reinforcements to the area. Two destroyers and two submarines sped to ward New Guinea from California and Mexico. KLM diverted passenger jets from the Amsterdam-New York run to fly some 1,500 marines out to the Pacific...
...troubles began with a quiet Dutch trooplift to West New Guinea aboard KLM commercial flights. As long as the soldiers wore civvies, carried no arms and traveled aboard regularly scheduled commercial airlines-as they had done for months-nobody complained. But fortnight ago the Dutch decided to step up the airlift by chartering two special flights, and Japan promptly closed Tokyo International Airport to the jets for refueling. Forced to find an alternate route, the Dutch won U.S. permission to refuel at Anchorage, Honolulu and Wake Island...
...Dutch airline KLM now checks its airplanes regularly, and issues maps to point out the position of known masses of radioactive air. If a flight plan promises to take an airliner through too many contaminated clouds, a safer course can be chosen. Soon KLM will have radiation detectors riding in its planes to make sure that passengers and crewmen do not get dangerous doses of radiation...