On November 14, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines welcomed its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Schiphol. The "Zonnebloem" (Sunflower) was flown in from the Boeing plant in Seattle.

The Dutch carrier celebrated the delivery of its first 787-9 on Saturday at a ceremony at Boeing's assembly line in Everett, Wash.

KLM will debut its 787-9 on three special "welcome flights" that each will take off from Amsterdam before returning an hour later. The airline offered seats on those flights for EUR149, though all three flights quickly sold out.

It is learnt that the Dutch carrier is scheduled to put the first 787-9 into regular passenger service on its route between Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi with continuing service to Bahrain. KLM's online flight schedule shows the first 787 flight on that route will start on Nov. 23.

This Dreamliner is the first of a total of 21 787-9s that KLM will take into service. All of KLM's Dreamliners will be named after flowers, a typical Dutch export product and therefore a perfect fit for KLM.

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