It very likely isn’t financially…
Officially at least KLM is not “the main financial sponsor” of this project.
Last year a rather high-profile “donate for the Constellation” programme was set up. Hundreds of people donated one hundred euros (was about 70 GBP back then…) or more to become a “VIP-member”, plus thousands putting in lesser amounts of money.
The following of “Dutch Connie” has been rather strong with people and (small) companies supporting her over the years, whether in kind/natura or guilders/euros.
Also huge charity/lottery funds could be obtained last year, and these funds will flow in between now and about 2013-is. Even without KLM’s support the Constellation would now be “financially independent”, at least for this year.
This decision has all the hallmarks of “being afraid of one’s corporate image” and concerns for “liability”.
People are mostly angry about the timing of this decision, plus the fact that people donating money and CERTAINLY all those hardworking volunteers were suddenly faced with this decision, without any explanation at all.
The volunteers, a lot of whom have been working on N749NL from about 2000/2001, feel they’ve been betrayed by “the board”… 😡
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