This was at a time when few aircraft carried no more than four
passengers and closed cabins were not enclosed (Franklin, 1980).
Some claim that KLM, founded in the Netherlands on 7 October 1919, was
the world’s first commercial airline (KLM, 2001 [online]), and that it was four
days later, on 11 October, that pre-packed airline meals first appeared on the
flights between London and Paris