Word: klm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great is the exodus that the twice-weekly ferry has been sold out for six weeks ahead. In Havana, the Dutch KLM airline, with an average of 60 seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
...Count me among the ground personnel," said Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 43, when he joined Holland's KLM airline two years ago as deputy president. Since then, Van der Beugel has conquered his nervousness about air travel by making 104 flights "in self-defense," but still insists that "subnormal mechanical intelligence" makes planes a mystery to him. Last week, more interested in his keen economic mind than his airworthiness, KLM moved ex-Civil Servant van der Beugel into the president's chair. Highflying KLM's first-quarter 1961 revenues were a record $36 million...
...lure European tourists to the U.S., the airlines have set out to crush one of Europe's most cherished myths: that a traveler must have a gold-lined pocket to visit the U.S. So far, KLM has done most of the dragon slaying. Its agents are pushing a clever little booklet called Een Handige Budget-Baedeker. To potential travelers the Budget-Baedeker gives helpful tips on where to find bargains in New York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture...
...KLM's campaign has already produced results. During the slow winter months, its transatlantic traffic increased 49% over last year; over the full year, KLM expects a 20% rise. Other lines hope for similar gains. With the added encouragement from the U.S., the time may come when the European who wants to escape the summer invasion by U.S. tourists of his own land will fly off to Manhattan instead of fleeing to the country...
...Marine guard did not recognize them (said one Marine later: "They looked like Russians"). They were handed over to U.S. officials; Ambassador Thompson briefed them on the cloak-and-dagger arrangements that had been made to get them out of Russia unrecognized. Seats had already been reserved on a KLM Electra-under other names. Crisp new passports with Soviet exit visas were ready. There was barely time to smoke an American cigarette before they were rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport...