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Transavia, legally Transavia Airlines C.V. (formerly branded as transavia.com), is a Dutch low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Its main base is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with further bases at Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Eindhoven Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde.
Transavia additionally maintains Transavia France as its French subsidiary.
The first brainstorming sessions about starting a second charter company in the Netherlands, after Martinair, started in spring 1966, when the American Chalmers Goodlin met with captain Pete Holmes. "Slick" Goodlin had recently bought the dormant small company Transavia Limburg, based in Maastricht, which had 3 DC6's available. The Dutch Government needed to be approached in order to obtain an operating license for the airline, both in order to be allowed to operate out of Amsterdam Airport, and for these DC6s.
At that stage John Block, a former member of the Martinair Holland management, was willing to take that on. He succeeded, the license was issued on 14 November 1966 and 2 days later on 16.11.1966 the first (maiden) commercial flight, flown by Captain Pete Holmes – Amsterdam/Naples/Amsterdam – on board were the Dutch Ballet Orchestra and the Dutch Dance Theatre. This was the first flight with the new name of Transavia Holland.
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