Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Interinsulair Bedrijf Batavia (KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf or simply KLM-IIB; lit. 'Royal Dutch Interinsular Airline Services Batavia') was an airline based in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and the predecessor to Garuda Indonesia.
History
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,[2] their destinations consisted of domestic routes (within Indonesia) and also international routes (such as