Founding date: October 7, 1919
Country: Netherlands
Call sign: KL
With a tongue-twister like Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij for a name, no
is the Royal Aviation Company, and it is the oldest existing airline in the
world. Its first flight ever was aboard a De Havilland DH-16 piloted by Captain
Jerry Shaw between Amsterdam Schipol and London in 1920, and its first
airline has a fleet of 200 planes and carries over 30 million passengers per
year.