Thanks, Kenton >From recollection, the last straw was that Australia imposed constraints on the KLM service which made it impossible to operate economically. I think they imposed a ceiling of 200 passengers on one B747 per week, probably with no fifth freedom rights on the Singapore-Sydney sector. Antoin Daltun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenton A. Hoover" <shibumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "The Airline List" <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Antoin Daltun" <adaltun@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 31 October 2005 05:27 Subject: Re: DC-3 longest sector? > Probably has to do with the Dutch being rather devoid of their former > colonial possessions down there, and not being felt so nostalgically of > as the British in theirs... > > Antoin Daltun wrote: > > Thanks, Kees, a new idea since I was ideally looking for a non-stop sector. > > It is ironic too that KLM/KNILM [a precursor of Skyteam???] were operating > > through to Australia while KLM does not today (and neither does Skyteam). > >