transavia.com
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| IATA HV |
ICAO TRA |
Callsign TRANSAVIA |
| Founded | 1966 | |
| Hubs | Amsterdam-Schiphol | |
| Focus cities | Rotterdam Eindhoven Paris-Orly |
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| Fleet size | 27 | |
| Destinations | 63 | |
| Parent company | Air France-KLM | |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
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| Website: [1] | ||
transavia.com is a Netherlands based low-cost airline operating as an independent part of the Air France-KLM group. Its main base is at Schiphol International Airport, Amsterdam while Rotterdam Airport (RTM) and Eindhoven Airport (EIN) are its secondary bases. transavia.com chiefly operates scheduled and charter services to leisure destinations.
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[edit] History
The airline was established in the end of 1965 as Transavia Limburg. The name was changed in 1966 to Transavia Holland and it began operations on 17 November 1966. In 1986, the name was changed to Transavia Airlines. It was the first airline to take advantage of the first open skies agreement signed between the UK and Dutch governments. Transavia started operating its first scheduled service on the Amsterdam to London Gatwick route on 26 October 1986.
During 1991, the airline's major shareholder, Nedlloyd, sold its 80% holding to KLM. In 1998, Transavia was the first foreign airline to operate domestic services in Greece following a change in Greek aviation law. In June 2003, KLM acquired the remaining 20% of Transavia, making it 100% KLM owned. The subsequent merger of Air France and KLM made Transavia a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France-KLM.
In the early 2000s, Transavia was primarily a charter airline with a low-cost airline subsidiary called Basiq Air. To strengthen its brand, Basiq Air and the Transavia charter arm were combined under the transavia.com name on 1 January 2005.
Transavia chose Eindhoven as its third base, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and will base a Boeing 737-800 there from November 1st, 2006. It will operate 5 weekly flights to Alicante and Málaga as well as 2 weekly flights to Faro. Transavia is establishing a French unit, to be based at Paris-Orly. The unit will initially operate with four 737-800s [1]. In partnership with Transavia, Air France is to launch a new charter/low-cost subsidiary to be based at Paris - Orly Airport and to begin operations in spring 2007 with leisure route services in the Mediterranean and North Africa. It will be named transavia.com, just like the current Dutch company, and will get an identical look (with identical uniforms, livery, etc.)[2]. It will operate Boeing 737 aircraft. Transavia is understood to have a 40% stake, with Air France holding the rest [3].
[edit] Destinations
transavia.com's scheduled network covers 19 destinations served from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven, while charter services are flown to over 60 destinations in Europe.
[edit] Fleet
The transavia.com fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2008):
| Aircraft | # of Aircraft |
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| Boeing 737-700 | 10 |
| Boeing 737-800 | 18 |
The airline has disposed of a large number of aircraft operated earlier including 16 Boeing 737-300 and 4 Boeing 757 aircraft.
Seasonally, transavia.com leases out 737 aircraft to operators such as Sun Country Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Miami International and SpiceJet.
In December 2005 the company introduced a new 'look', including new uniforms and aircraft livery.
On 13 November 2007 Boeing announced that transavia.com had ordered 7 Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
transavia.com average fleet age is 6.1 years old in March 2008 [4].
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