In 1928 Plesman also founded Koninklijke NederlandschāIndische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM), the Royal NetherlandsāEast Indies Airlines, which in 1930 inaugurated regular flights from the Netherlands to Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies, a trip of 8,700 miles (14,000 km), until 1940 the worldās longest scheduled air route. KNILM mergedā¦
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