eastern023 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 805 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 3822 times:
I was wondering what were the destiantions served by KLM is South America during the 70's and 80's...What cities served under which routes and with what type of aircraft...I am sure they served GRU, GIG, EZE, MVD and SCL, what about CCS, LIM & BOG...?
tope98 From Venezuela, joined Dec 2005, 78 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 3431 times:
Quoting eastern023 (Thread starter): was wondering what were the destiantions served by KLM is South America during the 70's and 80's...What cities served under which routes and with what type of aircraft...I am sure they served GRU, GIG, EZE, MVD and SCL, what about CCS, LIM & BOG...?
They served CCS until June 2004, when KLM merged with AF.
AA B777-200 From Netherlands, joined Mar 2001, 503 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 3394 times:
You're forgetting PBM. A destination that was served with DC8-63s, often with fuel stops in Santa Maria. These DC8s were replaced in peak seasons by 747s or DC10s.
In the 80s KLM tried many different things, like the 743 and DC10, sometimes combined with CCS, CUR and POS.
Later the 747 was deployed on PBM en eventually replaced by the MD11 (now operating 5 to 6 times a week).
Also missing on your list are Quito and Guayaquil.
eastern023 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 805 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 2895 times:
Quoting PU803 (Reply 5): I flew on a DC-10 SCL-EZE-MVD-GIG-AMS at January 2, 1983. (and AMS-TLV at 1/3/1983 due to LY strike)
The good olds days
Do you remember the scheduling? at what time it left SCL?
AA B777-200 From Netherlands, joined Mar 2001, 503 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 2593 times:
In Central America KLM served GUA, PTY and SJO with DC10s. Mostly combined with CUR or AUA.
Later on, GUA became a tag-on for the AMS-MEX stretch, but GUA was then dropped in the late 90s.
AMS-PTY-SJO was a shortlived route, but PTY returned to the network (6 weekly nonstop MD11) a few years back.
2travel2know2 From Panama, joined Apr 2010, 2071 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (2 years 2 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2311 times:
Don't remember KL ever flying LIM via PBM (AF flew ORY/CDG-CAY-LIM), but I did see a KL schedule AMS-PBM-CCS and AMS-PBM-CUR.
Traffic between PBM and CCS might have been just a couple of passengers.
KL577 From Netherlands, joined Oct 2006, 756 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 2 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2239 times:
Quoting AA B777-200 (Reply 2): You're forgetting PBM. A destination that was served with DC8-63s, often with fuel stops in Santa Maria. These DC8s were replaced in peak seasons by 747s or DC10s.
In the 1970s before the A310s entered the KLM-fleet, PBM was served on DC8s via FNA, ROB and/or sometimes CMN.
PU803 From Israel, joined Aug 1999, 153 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (2 years 2 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2184 times:
Hi eastern023 !
Well, I flew only MVD-TLV. Its was my first transcontinental !!!
I make checkin at 1 pm, and was on board around 3.30 pm. I do remember we land at TLV around 6 p.m.
SCL767 From Chile, joined Feb 2006, 8316 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (2 years 2 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2167 times:
Quoting timz (Reply 7): Lima was five stops from AMS, Caracas was a 1-stop or 2-stop. No Bogota.
During the mid 1970's, KLM operated into LIM twice weekly with the DC-8s:
AMS-FRA-ZRH-LIS-POS-CCS-CUR-PTY-LIM weekly DC8
AMS-ZRH-MAD-CCS-CUR-PTY-GYE-LIM weekly DC8
capicua From Venezuela, joined Apr 2011, 49 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 years 2 months 7 hours ago) and read 1346 times:
I flew B747-206 PH-BUG in September '72 AMS-LIS-PBM-CUR-CCS.
It was a looong, almost endless flight, even for an aviation enthusiast. The plane was named "Orinoco" and had the KLM livery on the port side and the Viasa livery on the starboard side.
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