French Fresh News: Transavia based in Munich: 10,000 passengers and ambitions

Friday, April 1, 2016

Transavia based in Munich: 10,000 passengers and ambitions – Air-Journal

The airline low cost Transavia yesterday celebrated its 10,000 ^th in its new passenger Basic Munich , opened quietly last Friday. The CEO of its parent company, the group Air France-KLM , took the opportunity to confirm the objective of hundred aircraft and more than 20 million passengers per year d within three years.

the ten-thousandth passenger of the company specialized in cheap flight was recorded March 31, 2016 at the airport in Munich , its first base outside France and the Netherlands, five days after its official opening last Friday. A step which “ highlights the demand for affordable rates in the region ” and confirm “ our choice to establish the first German in Munich based Transavia ,” said Mattijs ten Brink, director of Transavia Holland in charge of this new base when installed 20 pilot and 50 cabin crew. She has already received 200,000 bookings, and account this year carry one million passengers in the Bavarian airport. The low cost has based two Boeing 737-800 in Munich (the other two are expected in May), where it was already present with a line from Paris-Orly; 18 new routes involve Bari, Brussels, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Eindhoven, Faro, Marrakech, Naples, Palermo, Palma, Pisa, Porto, Seville, Valencia and Venice over Alicante and Lisbon.

Transavia, Netherlands and France included, has already announced for the summer growth of its offering of 14.8%, almost ten times faster than that of the group, and launched in search of the perfect place to open a second base outside its territory. present in Munich, the CEO of Air France-KLM Alexandre Juniac recalled that the low cost “ is no longer a dwarf ” with 10 million passengers in 2015, although it n is not up to European giants such as Ryanair , easyJet , Germanwings / Eurowings , Norwegian or Vueling . Transavia will have this summer 69 planes , 12 new 737-800 aircraft joining its fleet, but the goal remains to reach a hundred aircraft and over 20 million passengers in 2019, “ while crossing the point of balance in 2017 “- when it will represent 10% of total group sales. The leader explains in Les Echos that if Transavia Holland now accounts for two-thirds of the business, “ short term, the activity of the two companies should be balanced with forty aircraft each “the growth potential of the French market was greater than that of the Dutch market. Alexandre Juniac added that “ all options on the table ” in the development of low cost via the acquisition of other companies – a rumor about the Hungarian Wizz Air has already been circulated.