Famed K.L.M., Royal Dutch Air Lines, the world's oldest international flyer (1920), last week added another first to its long pioneering history.
At Miami's 36th Street airport, a K.L.M. Lockheed Super-Electra landed ten passengers, 25,000 first-flight "covers" for stamp collectors, eight hours and 44 minutes after taking off from Curacao. It was the first scheduled Caribbean-U.S. flight ever made by a commercial plane that did not belong to Pan American Airways.
For eight years K.L.M. has had a network centered around the oil-rich Dutch islands of Curaco and Aruba. Before the war, this 2,400-mile route from nowhere to nowhere was a...