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The Ladies Of KLM Debut Their New, Blue Fashion
The employees at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are getting an early Christmas present. Earlier this month, new uniforms were revealed at an airline fashion show just for them. Unfortunately, the new uniforms are only for the airline’s female employees, so male fashionistas will just have to sit back and jealously look on. It’s not all bad for the male employees however, since they got an upgrade back in 2000.
Dutch designer Mart Visser has created the new uniforms, and they will start to appear in an international airport near you starting in April 2010. The airline has preserved its trademark blue color that it has used for many decades, but has given things a facelift with the completely new design. KLM is pretty pumped about the new threads, saying that it was just one way to show that they have confidence in their brand despite the current economic climate.
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Airports Using Speed Dating to Woo Prissy Airlines
Your ears perk up, your heart begins to race and your face flushes--could it actually happen? Could you find your true love at first glance flying the friendly skies? While it may be possible thanks to innovations like Virgin's seat-to-seat messaging and services like AirTroductions, it's more likely that the airline you're flying with has just made its own love connection with your destination airport.
At a convention Inspired by the to-the-point business approach of "wham, bam, thank you ma'am"-style speed dating, the Dallas News reports that airports lined up to use their best lines in order to snare the pretty young thing airplanes being delivered to airlines like American and KLM. Here's how the deals went down:
The Network USA 2009 event brought 300 airline and airport representatives together for a series of 20-minute meetings modeled after the popular dating scheme. In good times, the meetings were flirtatious fun during which airports angled to land some of the new planes that carriers planned to add.
It's meetings such as these which get the ball rolling for seemingly odd routes such as Dallas/Fort Worth direct to Amsterdam or Tampico, Mexico. We can imagine the giggly conversations now: "I totally got Air France's digits! How'd you do with nuzzling up to Swissair?" If this is the case, then Boston-Logan is totally the new big pimp in town.
[Photo: Libyan Soup]
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Jaunted in Amsterdam: Official Scooter Business
HotelChatter editor/Jaunted editor-at-large Juliana Shallcross is currently wrapping up her whirlwind tour of Amsterdam, courtesy of the Netherlands Board of Tourism. We'll be giving you a day to get all the pot jokes out of your system, so that you might appropriately comment on her reports. We'll have those for you starting tomorrow, but until then, here's a preview.
Above is a picture snapped at Schiphol Airport. Though they don't appear in the picture, airport security guards at Schiphol apparently ride around on Segway Personal Transporters. Juliana spotted some renegade staffers on their scooters, but they rode so fast and furiously in pursuit of official scooter business that they couldn't be caught on camera. Not as elusive, however, was the glorious assortment of beauty products upon a KLM flight--you can catch that picture after the jump.
Juliana also reports on this nugget of irony from the gates of AMS: "Right when you get off the plane, the airport says its a no-smoking airport but then there' s a bar in the terminal where people are puffing away." Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, you can visit Trippist for more on the Amsterdam scene.
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Airline Report: A Baby and Babymama for KLM
Airlines will eat your soul in any number of ways, claiming your firstborn among them. It's too bad for K.L.M. (that's short for Karl Lorenz Martin) Banal that Dutch carrier KLM is no longer giving free lifetime air passes to babies born on its planes, because he happens to be one of those babies. Karl's mom, Betchel, was on a flight from Amsterdam to Manila when she went into premature labor. The plane was diverted to Kazakhstan, of all places, but without time to safely transfer his mom to the hospital, Karl popped out right there, into the aircarft cabin.
KLM, the airline, paid for K.L.M.'s care in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for a week, and a KLM staffer visited K.L.M. and his mama in the hospital every day.
Babies and drool and whatever else aside, we can only wonder what the experience was like for the rest of the plane's passengers. Imagine being a peaceful, Borat-loving stoner en route from Amsterdam to the next phase of your backpacking trip. After sleeping off last week's parties, you suddenly awake when your plane hits the ground in Kazakhstan. There had to be at least one person enjoying the hilarity of it all, no?
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747 to Beachcombers: Outta My Way, Bitch
Speaking of scary airports, the approach that airplanes make into St. Maarten's Princess Juliana Airport is famous. Planes as large as a 747 jet fly extremely low on approach, nearly clipping Maho Beach in the process. You may recognize the scene above from a "fake" image sent to you by a friend, but the photo and the video are 100% real. We posted a different clip a while back, but this one's even better, mostly because of the cameraman, who really adds to the effect by asking his fellow planespotters for their "last requests."
Though the airport is in the second phase of a significant renovation, news out of the island doesn't indicate that the close call arrival for jets has changed much.
Have you been to St. Maarten recently? Let us know what the approach is like nowadays (by email or in the comments).
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