Word: klm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small matter. Alitalia, KLM, Lufthansa and Sabena have appealed for preservation of duty-free shops, which are a source of considerable income for the airports. Also worried is British Railways, which operates ferries that carry 6,000,000 travelers across the English Channel every year. These tourists are such eager spenders that British Railways is building new ships with on-board duty-free "supermarkets" so capacious that passengers will be given self-service shopping carts to push around...
...missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...
...longer willing to be locked out of this lucrative trade, other West European airlines are pressing for landing rights in West Berlin. Alitalia, SAS and KLM have been particularly active, but Sabena and Swissair have also put out feelers. Much to the consternation of Pan Am, the U.S. is willing to welcome additional carriers, but Britain is so far unwilling to agree...
Consequently, several of the carriers are now talking to East German officials about using Schönefeld. KLM, in fact, now stops there "on demand" if enough passengers on its Amsterdam-Moscow flight want to get off or on in East Berlin. The airlines' interest in East Berlin is genuine enough, but it might flag if a new agreement permits expanded air service between Tempelhof and Western capitals...