Last Flight First Officer Inge van Son @ KLM

First Officer Inge van Son made her last flight due to retirement at KLM. A retirementflight heading for Bangkok and back homebase Amsterdam. Inge got assisted by Captain Juurd Ketting as her ‘Wingman’ ánd her sister Ellen as her ‘Wingwoman” (First Officer and operating this flight as Second Officer) That’s a wonderful detail. Flight KL843 , AMS-BKK, stand E3 and a RWY18L departure operated with a B777-200 reg PHBQM. Backflight KL844, landing on same runway but now RWY36R got operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVN. After vacating the runway taxying to final stand F9.     Videostills………….
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Last Flight of Captain Jaap Jan van den Hof @ KLM

Captain Jaap Jan van den Hof made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A retourflight heading for Bangkok assisted by First Officer Niels Schieck and Second Officer Paul Caro. Flight KL843 ,operated with a B777-300ER , reg PHBVR, stand F8 and a RWY24 departure. Backflight KL844 , operated with another B777-300ER and reg PHBVK, got a nice landing on RWY36R and after vacating taxying for final stand E19  
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Last flight of Senior Purser Anita Groenewold @ KLM

Anita Groenewold (Senior Purser ) – Farewell Flight This Royal Dutch KLM flight was (wo)manned with: . cockpit crew (Captain Arjen, First Officers Ben and Joep & Second Officer Gert) and . cabin crew (Senior Purser Pieter and his CA’s Hans, Anqelique, Noor, Ingvar, Anke, Duco, Jacqueline, Tim en Nick) Departure on Wednesday November 11, 2020 KL843 (AMS-BKK) – PH-BVN – B777-300ER: stand F4, push & pull abeam A16 and a RWY18L departure Arrival on Sunday November 15, 2020 KL844 (BKK-AMS) – PH-BVO – B777-300ER: an early arrival at RWY18R (“Polderbaan”)     Videostills……………..
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