KLM doubles FD Miles and Donations for KLM AirCares

As part of its 85th anniversary celebrations, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is offering additional support to its KLM AirCares charity program, which is celebrating its 5th anniversary, by doubling all Flying Dutchman miles donated by FD members via www.aircares.nl in November.

In addition, the KLM Executive Board said it will double all donations made to AirCares during the KLM Open House on October 9 and 10. KLM AirCares generated a sum of EUR 38,000 by auctioning a wide variety of items and organizing various other fundraising activities surrounding its 5th anniversary. When this sum is doubled, the total raised for AirCares relief programs amounts to EUR 76,000.

AirCares took center stage at the recent Open House event attended by KLM employees, their families and friends. KLM 85th-anniversary celebrations served as a platform to bring the 5th anniversary of AirCares to the attention of the 30,000-plus visitors who attended the event.

The relief organizations supported by AirCares presented themselves to the public with a richly varied program of performances that took place on a large stage. All the organizations also had information and sales stands surrounding the stage, where visitors could join their programs as benefactors.

Over the past five years, KLM AirCares has supported 20 projects providing relief to underprivileged children around the world. Every quarter, AirCares selects a different relief organization and supports one of their structural projects.

During the last quarter of 2004, KLM AirCares is supporting Unicef’s relief program for the children of Bam (Iran), a city destroyed by a massive earthquake earlier this year.

KLM AirCares supports fundraising by bringing relief programs to the attention of KLM passengers and asking them to donate FD miles and money. As of November 1, there will no longer be a minimum for FD mile donations.

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