Transavia.com Boeing 737-700 in old livery taxiing at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, Germany. (2005)

Transavia Airlines C.V., styled as transavia.com and known as Transavia, is a Dutch based low-cost airline operating as an independent part of the Air France-KLM group. Its main base is at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol while Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM), and Eindhoven Airport (EIN) are its secondary hubs. In France, Paris-Orly Airport is the main base of its French affiliate. Transavia.com chiefly operates scheduled and charter services to leisure destinations. It is headquartered in the TransPort Building at Schiphol Airport in Haarlemmermeer.

History[link]

The airline was established in the end of 1965 as Transavia Limburg. John Block (1929–1994) (former co-founder of Martinair and later founder of Air Holland) bought the 'sleeping' airline and renamed it Transavia Holland, with operations starting on 17 November 1966. Building up the airline from scratch, ten years later Transavia had a marketshare of 45% of the Dutch holiday market and became the main competitor of Martinair. In 1986, the Transavia Holland brand was changed into 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 image, the two were combined under the transavia.com name on 1 January 2005.

Transavia has a French unit, Transavia France, based at Paris-Orly, which operates ten 737-800s. A Danish unit, Transavia Denmark, based at Copenhagen was operated until the end of April 2011, but was shut down after failing to meet expectations.

Corporate affairs[link]

Head office[link]

TransPort Building - Houses the head offices of Transavia.com and Martinair

Transavia.com has its head office in the TransPort Building, Schiphol East,^[1] on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands.^[2] Transavia.com moved into the new building on 3 May 2010 with about 400 employees.^[3]

Building Triport III, the former headquarters

Previously Transavia's head office was in the Building Triport III at Schiphol Airport.^[4][5][6]

Destinations[link]

Fleet[link]

Current Fleet[link]

As of May 2012, the Transavia fleet (excluding Transavia France) consists of the following aircraft. All aircraft are fitted with performance-enhancing winglets.^[7]

Boeing 737-700 approaching a gate at Malaga Airport

Boeing 737-700

Fleet development[link]

Over the years, Transavia operated the following aircraft types in its mainline fleet:^[8]

Additional aircraft types were part of the fleet in small numbers and only for short-term periods: Airbus A300 (1976–77), Airbus A310 (1998–99), Boeing 737-400 (1997), Boeing 757-300 (2003) and BAe 146-200 (1997).^[8]

On-board service[link]

Transavia.com offers the "Selection on Board" buy on board service offering food and drinks for purchase.^[10]

Luggage policy[link]

Commencing 5 April 2011, transavia.com will introduce fees for hold luggage. In addition, the rules for hand luggage will also change. With effect from 5 April 2011, the maximum allowable weight for hand luggage will increase from 5 kg to 10 kg.^[11]

Incidents and accidents[link]

To date no fatalities or complete loss of aircraft occurred related to Transavia flights. In 1997 two incidents occurred with substantial damage to the aircraft:

• On 8 February 1997, Transavia Airlines Flight 484, a Boeing 737-300 flying from Salzburg to Amsterdam, was damaged en route. The push/pull rod of the elevator broke off, damaging the Boeing 737's rudder and an emergency landing was made at Nuremberg Airport. There were no fatalities, but the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive after this and a similar incident.^[12]

• On 24 December 1997, Transavia Airlines Flight 462, a Boeing 757-200 flying from Las Palmas to Amsterdam was seriously damaged during landing. The aircraft landed in strong, gusty winds and touched down hard with its right maingear first. On touchdown the nosegear broke out of the doghouse. After gliding over the runway for aprox 3 km, it came to rest in the grass beside the runway. Serious damage was inflicted on some electronic systems and control-cables. The plane evacuated successfully and no fatalities occurred.^[13] The aircraft returned to service after repairs.

See also[link]

	Netherlands portal
	Aviation portal
	Companies portal

• Transavia Denmark
• Transavia France

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website

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