KLM’s ‘Amboseli Park’ Jets Into Kenya
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 4th Boeing 777-300ER named Amboseli National Park jetted into Kenya on Friday evening on its maiden commercial flight.
The 425-seater aircraft is the latest addition to KLM fleet and it signals a double ‘first’ being the first aircraft to leave the Boeing plant using environmentally friendlier paint and the first to be named after a national park in Africa.
The Amboseli National Park aircraft is painted silver with dark blue accents of the SkyTeam Alliance – a deviation from the well-known KLM blue. The naming is aimed to educate people that responsible flying and enjoying the beauty of our planet can be combined.
According to the airline the PH-BVA has been named after Kenya’s “Amboseli National Park,” in honour of the parks biodiversity conservation efforts. Amboseli National Park which was branded “Kilimanjaro’s Royal Court” is a jewel in the crown of Kenya’s world-famous national parks. The 390-km sq park has fantastic views of Kilimanjaro and is surrounded by six communally owned ranches. It lies 250 km south of Nairobi in Loitokitok District and is one of the most popular Kenya safari destinations.
KLM is the only airline in the world that names aircrafts with none-coded names and have been using national parks since March 2008.
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September 14th, 2009 12:03
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