Transavia.com

Infobox Airline
airline = transavia.com

logo_size = 200
fleet_size = 33
destinations = 63
IATA = HV
ICAO = TRA
callsign = TRANSAVIA
parent = Air France-KLM
founded = 1966
headquarters = Amsterdam, Netherlands
key_people =
hubs = Amsterdam-Schiphol
focus_cities = Rotterdam
Eindhoven
Paris-Orly
frequent_flyer =
lounge =
alliance=|
website = [http://www.transavia.com/]

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.

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 has a French unit, based at Paris-Orly. The unit operates seven 737-800s " [http://www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=7115 Air France KLM close to launching new leisure carrier] ." Buyck, C. "Air Transport World". November 20, 2006 ] .

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.

Fleet

The transavia.com fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2008) [ [http://www.transavia.com/hv/en-EU/our-fleet transavia.com Fleet] ] :

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 Air 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 [ [http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Transavia%20Airlines.htm transavia.com Fleet Age] ] .

Accidents and incidents

To date no fatalities or complete loss of aircraft occurred related to Transavia flights. In 1997 two incidents occurred with substantial damage to the planes:
*On February 8 the push/pull rod of the elevator broke off in flight damaging the Boeing 737 rudder and an emergency landing was made at Nuremberg Airport. No fatalities, but the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive after this and a similar incident. [Incident details from [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970208-0 Aviation Safety.net website] , visited June 22, 2008]
*On December 24 of the same year a Boeing 757 returning from Las Palmas to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was seriously damaged during landing. The aircraft landed in strong, gusty winds and touched down hard with right maingear first. On touchdown of the nosewheel the nosegear broke out of the doghouse. After gliding over runway 19R 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. [Incident details from [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19971224-0 Aviation Safety.net website] , visited June 22, 2008]
*On August 26 2008, a boeing 737-800 with flightnumber HV207 from Rotterdam to Bodrum did not take-off after an anonymous phone call was made stating certain passengers aboard the aircraft were planning to hijack the plane or take hostages. The aircraft in question was a Boeing 737-800 that was scheduled as flight HV207 to take off for Bodrum at 3:20 p.m. with 114 passengers aboard.

References

External links

* [http://www.transavia.com/ transavia.com]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=HV&al_op=1 transavia.com Fleet]

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