babotika
That's right, KLM's policy has always been, KLS/NLS, Ex airfore/navy and then free market pilots. That has been the policy for more than 20 years (when I started into looking into flying). back then KLS (then known as RLS) produced about 20 pilots a year. A lot of guys got hired of the street until about 1996 (really a lot!!) than from about 1996 to 2001 about 100 hundred guys were hired, it was a bad time.
Then in 2001, hiring took off again, however KLS trained/traines about 120 to 200 guys a year. This still wasn't enough. They do ( for reasons I don't know or understand, I'm a street guy) prefer ab initio pilots. So they went to selected schools, Oxford, martinair and some others to fill their classes.