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Today's posts on OMAAT:
- Alaska Airlines & Breeze Airways Launch Unusual Partnership… But Why?
- Buy Hilton Honors Points With Best-Ever 120% Bonus, 0.45 Cents Each: Worth It?
- Erling Haaland Sues Norwegian Air Shuttle Over World Cup Ponytail Ad
- Premium Credit Cards With High Annual Fees: Are They Worth It?
- IHG One Rewards Premier Select Credit Card Review: Is The $350 Annual Fee Worth It?
- KLM’s Delft Blue Dutch Houses: The Full Story Behind 107 Collectibles
- Biman Bangladesh Orders 10 Airbus Planes: Four A350-900s & Six A321neos
- InKind Referral Code: Get $25 Off Your First Meal With My Favorite Dining App
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As it relates to the KLM Delft Blue Houses post from today, earlier this year (May 2026), in commemoration of 80 years since beginning Amsterdam to NYC service, there was an event and a Delft Blue House pop-up exhibit at the New York Historical Society in NYC (near Central Park). They had 15 Houses on-display, including: 1, 11, 16, 27, 33, 52, 70, 73, 75, 85, 90, 100, 103, 104, 106, each corresponding a year in which a major KLM event occurred. For instance, #33 is for year 1953, “the year KLM first introduced the iconic Delft Blue miniature houses, given as a gift to World Business Class passengers.” They also had some on-board menus, magazines (the Holland Herald), a section on the evolution of the business class seat (from recliners to lie-flat), and something on SAF (alternative aviation fuels). It was free, so I stopped-in for a look. (The only reason I even knew about the exhibit was that Gary had mentioned it.)
@1990_ awesome that you went! Of course, now that they rebranded it, it's the New York Historical. Pause for bafflement. It previously was known as the New-York Historical Society with a hyphen between New and York to reflect the, well, historical spelling of New York from when the institution was founded. But I'm sure you know all of this already!
@peter_ I noticed that, too... if they were going back further, for the city at least, I'm surprised they didn't go with New-Amsterdam (or New-Orange).
@1990_ Or Neiuw Amsterdam/Oranje. As opposed to Fort Oranje. But Oranje wouldn't work with the blue theme. Or, on a tangent, just because, Staaten Eylandt, which retained its name. (We have at least one Eylandt in this country, named in the same historical period.)
@mike-c Interesting! That said, blue and orange worked very well together this year - let's go Knicks! 🙂