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KLM (in full: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English: Royal Dutch Airlines) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before its (agreed) take-over by Air France, KLM was the national airline of the Netherlands.

Air France-KLM is France and the Netherlands' main air carrier and its KLM subsidiary operates from the airline hub of Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, where the subsidiary company has its headquarters.

Air France took over KLM in May 2004, resulting in the creation of Air France-KLM. Air France-KLM is incorporated under French law and its headquarters are located at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris. Air France-KLM is the largest airline company in the world in terms of operating revenues, and the third-largest in the world (largest in Europe) in terms of revenue-passenger-kilometers (RPKs). In 2004, KLM travelled 6 million passengers. [1]

Air France-KLM is part of the SkyTeam Alliance with Delta Air Lines, Aeroméxico, Korean Air, CSA Czech Airlines, Alitalia, Northwest Airlines, and Continental Airlines. Both Air France and KLM continue to fly under their distinct brand names, but this may change in the future.

History

KLM aircraft at Schiphol Airport The "Worldwide Reliability" logo with Northwest Airlines, 1993-2002

KLM was founded on October 7, 1919, making it the oldest carrier still operating under its current name. The first KLM flight was on May 17, 1920, with a flight from London to Amsterdam carrying two English journalists and a number of newspapers.

KLM has subsidiaries KLM Cityhopper, KLM Cargo and KLM Asia. A former subsidiary is KLM exel. KLM has an 100% share in Transavia Airlines, a 50% share in Martinair and a 26% share in Kenya Airways. KLM uk was a KLM subsidiary until KLM Cityhopper merged with it. KLM is listed on the stock exchanges of Amsterdam, New York and Paris. KLM Asia operates flight into Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China for political reasons. The livery of KLM Asia does not have the crown logo on the tail and fuselage.

In May 2004, KLM was taken over by Air France. Its independent identity is guaranteed for the coming five years, but eventually it is anticipated that its operations will be merged into those of the French company. In the meantime, it does not appear that KLM's longstanding joint venture with Northwest Airlines will be affected. Both airlines joined the Air France-led SkyTeam Alliance in September, 2004.

Destinations

Further information: KLM destinations

Fleet

KLM Boeing 737-400

The KLM fleet consists of the following aircraft (in January 2006):

  • 03 Airbus A330-200 (+ 9 orders)
  • 14 Boeing 737-300
  • 13 Boeing 737-400
  • 14 Boeing 737-800 (+ 14 on order)
  • 05 Boeing 737-900 (+ 15 on order)
  • 22 Boeing 747-400 (5 full pax, 17 combi)
  • 03 Boeing 747-400ERF (full freighter, + 1 on order)
  • 09 Boeing 767-300ER
  • 10 Boeing 777-200ER (+ 2 orders)
  • 10 McDonnell Douglas MD-11

The orders of the Airbus A330-200, as well as the Boeing 777-200ER, will over time replace the 767 and MD-11 aircraft, but KLM is also looking into adding the Boeing 787 or the Airbus A350.


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The orders of the Airbus A330-200, as well as the Boeing 777-200ER, will over time replace the 767 and MD-11 aircraft, but KLM is also looking into adding the Boeing 787 or the Airbus A350. The next Women's Champion was Trish Stratus. The KLM fleet consists of the following aircraft (in January 2006):. She successfully defended the title until she left the promotion later that year following a contract dispute later that year, vacating the title in the process. Both airlines joined the Air France-led SkyTeam Alliance in September, 2004. Chyna's only reign as WWE Women's Champion came after she defeated Ivory at WrestleMania X-Seven on April 1, 2001. In the meantime, it does not appear that KLM's longstanding joint venture with Northwest Airlines will be affected. She lost the title to Guerrero on RAW is WAR in a triple threat match with Kurt Angle on September 5, 2000.

Its independent identity is guaranteed for the coming five years, but eventually it is anticipated that its operations will be merged into those of the French company. Her third and final reign began on August 27, 2000 when she pinned Trish Stratus in an intergender tag team match pitting her and Eddie Guerrero against Stratus and defending champion Val Venis on August 27 at SummerSlam 2000. In May 2004, KLM was taken over by Air France. The title was held jointly between Chyna and Chris Jericho after an unresolved match on RAW is WAR on January 3, 2000 until Jericho regained complete claim of the title in a triple threat match between Chyna, Jericho, and Hardcore Holly on January 23 at the 2000 Royal Rumble. The livery of KLM Asia does not have the crown logo on the tail and fuselage. Her second Intercontinental Championship reign was disputed. KLM Asia operates flight into Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China for political reasons. Her first reign ended when she lost to Chris Jericho at Armageddon 1999 on December 12.

KLM is listed on the stock exchanges of Amsterdam, New York and Paris. Chyna first won the Intercontinental Championship on October 17, 1999 when she defeated Jeff Jarrett in a Good Housekeeping match at No Mercy 1999. KLM uk was a KLM subsidiary until KLM Cityhopper merged with it. Before joining the World Wrestling Federation, Laurer held the International Wrestling Federation Women's Championship. KLM has an 100% share in Transavia Airlines, a 50% share in Martinair and a 26% share in Kenya Airways. Joanie Laurer is the only woman to have held the WWE Intercontinental Championship (which she held three times), the first woman to hold a WWE Championship besides the WWE Women's Championship (Various women held the now-defunct WWE Hardcore Championship at brief times), and the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble match and King of the Ring tournament. A former subsidiary is KLM exel. In late 2005, Laurer signed to star in a new Sci-Fi Channel movie entitled Illegal Aliens, and made appearances at several Hollywood events.

KLM has subsidiaries KLM Cityhopper, KLM Cargo and KLM Asia. She also claimed that her relationship with Waltman was completely over. The first KLM flight was on May 17, 1920, with a flight from London to Amsterdam carrying two English journalists and a number of newspapers. Several months later, Laurer returned to television for the The Surreal Life reunion, where she claimed to be drug-free, and appeared to be in much better physical shape than in her previous public appearance. KLM was founded on October 7, 1919, making it the oldest carrier still operating under its current name. [3]. . In a rare move for Stern, he called the show to an abrupt end and, off air, told Laurer that he feared for her well being and that she needed to seek professional help.

Both Air France and KLM continue to fly under their distinct brand names, but this may change in the future. In the middle of the show, at the urging of Stern, Laurer rose and stripped to her underwear in front of her brother. Air France-KLM is part of the SkyTeam Alliance with Delta Air Lines, Aeroméxico, Korean Air, CSA Czech Airlines, Alitalia, Northwest Airlines, and Continental Airlines. During one show, Laurer appeared along with her brother in an attempt to smooth out her relationship with Waltman, who spoke with Stern, Laurer, and her brother via telephone. [1]. It became clear in 2005 after appearances on the Howard Stern Show that Laurer had severe substance abuse problems. In 2004, KLM travelled 6 million passengers. Several months later, in January 2005, Laurer was arrested at the Playboy Mansion for assaulting Waltman and spent six days in jail.

Air France-KLM is the largest airline company in the world in terms of operating revenues, and the third-largest in the world (largest in Europe) in terms of revenue-passenger-kilometers (RPKs). On one episode of the show, an enraged Sean Waltman showed up outside the Surreal Life house, threatening Laurer and demanding to see her. Air France-KLM is incorporated under French law and its headquarters are located at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris. In 2004, Laurer appeared in the fourth season of the VH1 show The Surreal Life along with Da Brat, Jane Wiedlin, Christopher Knight, Verne Troyer, Marcus Schenkenberg (who she was rumoured to be dating), and Adrianne Curry. Air France took over KLM in May 2004, resulting in the creation of Air France-KLM. In the end, she did not get the part. Air France-KLM is France and the Netherlands' main air carrier and its KLM subsidiary operates from the airline hub of Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, where the subsidiary company has its headquarters. Internet rumors claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger personally endorsed Laurer.

Before its (agreed) take-over by Air France, KLM was the national airline of the Netherlands. In 2003, Laurer auditioned for the role of the female Terminator in Terminator 3. KLM (in full: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English: Royal Dutch Airlines) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. In 2003, in what many saw as an attempt to try and salvage her career after parting ways with the WWE/WWF, Laurer appeared on a Celebrity Boxing special, in which she lost a legitimate fight to Joey Buttafuoco.
. Laurer has made numerous guest appearances on television series, including Third Rock From The Sun, Pacific Blue, Relic Hunter, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Fear Factor. 10 McDonnell Douglas MD-11. However, she later claimed that she had received no royalties.

10 Boeing 777-200ER (+ 2 orders). In a press release, Laurer announced that in a pre-emptive strike she had taken full rights to the footage and would receive a percentage from sales. 09 Boeing 767-300ER. An anal sex scene between Laurer and Waltman revealed severe acne on Laurer's buttocks, which many bodybuilders who viewed the tape pointed out as a telltale sign of steroid abuse. 03 Boeing 747-400ERF (full freighter, + 1 on order). [1] [2] Using Laurer's height of five feet, ten inches (or 1.778 meters) as a base reference, it can be determined that her clitoris is roughly 2.5 inches (or 6.35 centimeters) in length. 22 Boeing 747-400 (5 full pax, 17 combi). Eager for a repeat success, the company that released Paris Hilton's celebrity sex tape obtained the footage, edited it, and released it under the name 1 Night in China. The video became an internet phenomenon, due largely in part to a scene in the film in which Waltman performs cunnilingus on Laurer, causing the camera to focus on Laurer's unusually large clitoris, which also appeared to have a fully formed glans.

05 Boeing 737-900 (+ 15 on order). In 2004, it was revealed that Laurer and Waltman made a sex tape during a vacation to China earlier that year. 14 Boeing 737-800 (+ 14 on order). They were engaged for a period in 2003, then broke up, then became engaged again, a pattern which continued for the next two years. 13 Boeing 737-400. Since 2003, Laurer has carried on a love-hate relationship with wrestler Sean Waltman (X-Pac / Syxx-Pac). 14 Boeing 737-300. Later in the book, Laurer revealed that the structural integrity of the Chyna 2000 prototypes was relatively weak, and that one of them ruptured during a wrestling match, necessitating surgery.

03 Airbus A330-200 (+ 9 orders). Laurer's custom implants became the model for the Chyna 2000s, a model of breast implant marketed to large framed women and female body builders. In her autobiography, If Only They Knew, Laurer revealed that her breast implants were custom made after she complained to her plastic surgeon that their largest implants didn't suit her frame in the way she desired. In 2002, following her departure from WWF/WWE, Laurer also appeared in a softcore porn video produced and distributed by Playboy, entitled "Joanie Laurer: Nude Wrestling Superstar". Laurer has modeled nude, notably for Playboy; the issue which featured a pictorial of her was one of the ten best selling issues in the magazine's history.

Laurer has however said in recent interviews that she would like to return to WWE but this remains to be seen at present. She also made several appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling, and in celebrity boxing tournaments. She has sung and wrestled at a Ultimate Pro Wrestling event, and was scheduled to appear on a talk show hosted by Jonny Fairplay on a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view, but did not appear, supposedly due to a dispute over travel costs. Laurer's in-ring career since then has been very limited.

She left the company on November 30, 2001, several months after negotiations had broken down and she had been taken off television. It was also rumored that the relationship between Triple H, her former boyfriend, and Stephanie McMahon, with whom he had an affair then left Laurer for, was a factor in her departure. However, during her contract renegotiations, Laurer was unhappy with the pay she was offered and the fact that she was expected to compete principally in the women's division rather than against men. Laurer was an extremely dominant champion, defeating challengers Lita and Trish Stratus with little problem.

The highly publicised return of Laurer from the "injury" culminated in her winning the Women's Championship from Ivory at WrestleMania X-Seven in a squash match. In order to sell the injury, color commentator Jerry Lawler left the commentators' booth and entered the ring to check on Laurer's condition, something he had not done since the in-ring accident in 1999 that killed Owen Hart. This culminated in an angle at the 2001 Royal Rumble where Laurer appeared to re-injure her neck while performing a handspring back elbow. Laurer returned a few weeks later and began a feud with Ivory over the WWF Women's Championship.

Laurer was announced as injured after a vicious double team piledriver at the hands of Ivory and Val Venis. At the same time, Laurer's appearance in Playboy attracted the unwanted attention of Right to Censor, a strait-laced group of wrestlers who lampooned the Parents Television Council. They split in the autumn of 2000 after Eddie was found cavorting in the shower with two of The Godfather's "hos", Mandy and Victoria. Guerrero and Laurer became very popular during the summer of 2000, with Guerrero dubbing her his "Mamacita".

In 2000, Laurer briefly teamed with Chris Jericho before becoming the on-screen girlfriend of Eddie Guerrero. Laurer would go on to hold the title two more times. If he had not appeared, the WWF would have been criticised for false advertising, and the lineage of the title would have been broken). She claims that Jarrett demanded (and received) $250,000 from Vince McMahon in order to lose the title cleanly to a woman (his contract had expired on October 16, and he was therefore not contractually obligated to appear on the pay-per-view.

She defeated Jarrett for the title in his last WWF match on October 17, 1999 at No Mercy, in the process becoming the first and only woman to win the Intercontinental Championship. In late 1999, Laurer became a face again, allying with The Kat and feuding with Jeff Jarrett over the WWF Intercontinental Championship. The duo became part of The Corporation, and later Shane McMahon's Corporate Ministry, harassing rebels such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kane, X-Pac and The Rock. She was a thorn in the side of Triple H until he too joined McMahon's stable at WrestleMania XV.

The day after the 1999 Royal Rumble, Laurer turned heel by betraying Triple H and aligning herself with his enemy Vince McMahon. Her original role was as Chyna, the laconic bodyguard of D-Generation X, often getting physically involved in Triple H's matches. Struck by her appearance, they helped her get into the WWF. Her career reached new heights when she met World Wrestling Federation employees Hunter Hearst Helmsley (Triple H) and Shawn Michaels in a bar in 1997.

She debuted in 1995 and worked for various independent promotions as Just Joanie and Joanie Lee. Joanie Laurer trained at Wladek "Killer" Kowalski's wrestling school in Salem, Massachusetts, where she briefly dated Perry "Saturn" Satullo. . A former bodybuilder, she is best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1997 and 2001, where she was known as Chyna and nicknamed "The Ninth Wonder of the World" (with the eighth wonder being André the Giant).

Joanie Marie Laurer (born December 27, 1969 in Rochester, New York) is an American actress and retired professional wrestler. Joanie Laurer at ObsessedWithWrestling.com. Joanie Laurer at Gerweck.net. Chyna: If They Only Knew, Harper Collins, New York, 2001 ISBN 0007127650.

The Last Guy on Earth (2006) (post production). Illegal Aliens (2006). Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy (2005). 1 Night in China (2004).

Hunter: Back in Force (2003). Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002). Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (2000). Kneeling low blow (from behind).

Handspring back elbow. Gorilla press slam. Sleeper slam. DDT.

Pedigree (double underhook facebuster). Jackknife Powerbomb (release powerbomb).