There was this merry lady on a bike – a pretty little girl in an infant seat at the front, a playful looking boy in the backseat. I was on my way to the airport and she stopped as she passed me. “Excuse me, what about swapping our lives?”, she suggested. “You take care of… read more »
Did you know that every year 18,550,000 cups of coffee are served on KLM flights? The Dutch know a thing or two about coffee. It’s part of what we call ‘gezelligheid’, a practically untranslatable word that has to do with comfort and cosiness. We drink coffee everywhere – on our own, with friends, at work,… read more »
Probably the best thing about having children is that you get to learn geography all over again. This is especially handy for people like me who did their last school tests before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Back in those days, everything east of Germany was one large, undifferentiated mass of green, marked USSR.… read more »
There’s one thing I hate about my job: having to wake people up to ask them to fasten their seatbelts. It’s just not human. You’re overstressed and exhausted and you’ve finally found a way to fall asleep in your seat. And then, at the very moment you feel the tension leaving your body, and just… read more »
It’s Valentine’s Day again. The day on which lovers show each other a little more attention than usual, by giving gifts, flowers or cards. But this is also the day when we can declare our love for someone entirely anonymously. In fact, that’s how it all started a long, long time ago. But the days… read more »
What can I say about Almaty without embarrassing myself and insulting anyone? I know the Winter Olympics were held there some time ago (aging Dutch skaters keep reminding us that they won medals there) and my wife has been there (she’s a stewardess and “bad girls go everywhere,” as the saying goes). That’s pretty thin,… read more »
May we introduce you to our Europe Business Class? It replaces KLM Europe Select. You might want to know why we chose a new name for our European flights. The answer is simple – it’s a new name for a new product. We decided to rethink Business Class on our European fleet based on customer… read more »
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