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Old 6th Jul 2009, 09:02
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DeepestSouth
 
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My 'starter for 10'! Stand by for a bit of very sad geekery!

According to to the 1977 Guiness Book of Air Facts and Feats:

The oldest airline service still operated by the original airline company was the KLM London/Amsterdam service started on 17 May 1920 using a DH16 of Aircraft Transport and Travel piloted by H 'Jerry' Shaw. After that, all early KLM flights were operated by the same airline under charter.

Now the interesting bit ... that service still operates - Flight KLM 1000 Heathrow to Schiphol. That could be a contender!

Right - I'm off to count my collection of used rivets ... berble, berble, berble ...!

Regards

DS
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