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Turkey NMO 2011 q6

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December 8, 2011
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Problem Statement

Let AA and BB two countries which inlude exactly 20112011 cities.There is exactly one flight from a city of AA to a city of BB and there is no domestic flights (flights are bi-directional).For every city XX (doesn't matter from AA or from BB), there exist at most 1919 different airline such that airline have a flight from XX to the another city.For an integer kk, (it doesn't matter how flights arranged ) we can say that there exists at least kk cities such that it is possible to trip from one of these kk cities to another with same airline.So find the maximum value of kk.