Airline: | KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf |
Fleet Size: | 10+ |
Destinations: | Domestic, Singapore, British Malaya and Philippines |
Icao: | KLM |
Parent: | KLM |
Founded: | 1 August 1947 |
Ceased: | 28 December 1949 (2 years, 4 months and 27 days) |
Headquarters: | Java, Dutch East Indies |
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Interinsulair Bedrijf Batavia (KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf or simply KLM-IIB; English: Royal Dutch Interinsular Airline Services Batavia) was an airline based in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and the predecessor to Garuda Indonesia.
KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM-IIB) was founded on 1 August 1947 at Kemayoran Airport as a KLM subsidiary (due to the dissolution of Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM)),[1] and all of the aircraft in KNILM fleet were later transferred to KLM-IIB. They also received twenty Dakota aircraft, previously operated by Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger (KNIL).[2]
Based in Java, their destinations consisted of domestic routes (within Indonesia) and also international routes (such as Singapore; Penang, British Malaya; and Manila, Philippines),[3] operated by several Dakotas and nine Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious aircraft.
On 28 December 1949, KLM-IIB was nationalized by the Indonesian government, as agreed by both the Indonesian and Dutch governments during the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference. Upon the nationalization, the airline was renamed as Garuda Indonesia, now the flag carrier of Indonesia, and it remains to this day.