Transavia to open first base outside NL/FR: MUC
Dec 8, 2015, 1:19 am
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Transavia to open first base outside NL/FR: MUC
Starting March 2016. 18 routes have been announced (listed below, with their weekly frequencies); they are aiming for 1 million pax and 90% load factor in the first year.
Brussels, Paris Orly (12 each); Eindhoven (11); Venice, Palma De Mallorca (7 each), Copenhagen (6); Naples, Bari, Catania (5 each); Bologna, Pisa, Faro, Valencia, Seville (4 each); Palermo, Porto, Dubrovnik (3 each); Marrakech (2)
Brussels, Paris Orly (12 each); Eindhoven (11); Venice, Palma De Mallorca (7 each), Copenhagen (6); Naples, Bari, Catania (5 each); Bologna, Pisa, Faro, Valencia, Seville (4 each); Palermo, Porto, Dubrovnik (3 each); Marrakech (2)
Originally Posted by CAPA
Air France-KLM's low cost subsidiary Transavia will open its first base outside the group's home markets of France and the Netherlands. From Mar-2016, it will base four Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Bavarian state capital Munich. The airport will be Transavia's seventh base, after Dutch airports Amsterdam, Rotterdam/The Hague and Eindhoven and the French airports Paris Orly, Nantes and Lyon.
Flights from Munich will operate under Transavia's Dutch AOC, thereby presumably avoiding the need for agreement with Air France pilots, using mainly German pilots and cabin crew. However, Munich is by no means a low cost airport and Transavia will need to increase its initial fares, typically starting at EUR29 on many routes. The relative lack of LCC competition at Munich may be an attraction, but Lufthansa may eventually respond with its LCC Eurowings.
Flights from Munich will operate under Transavia's Dutch AOC, thereby presumably avoiding the need for agreement with Air France pilots, using mainly German pilots and cabin crew. However, Munich is by no means a low cost airport and Transavia will need to increase its initial fares, typically starting at EUR29 on many routes. The relative lack of LCC competition at Munich may be an attraction, but Lufthansa may eventually respond with its LCC Eurowings.
Dec 8, 2015, 4:11 am
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The complete analysis:
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Dec 8, 2015, 8:25 am
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Such moves will put even more pressure on smaller carriers like Croatia Airlines, Dolomiti or Air Berlin. Dolomiti seems to operate the perfect plane on routes to Italy. Croatia and AB are bucket cases anyway, so it might be worthwhile fighting with them for a few market share percentage points... 
Ryanair looked at MUC very closely over the last couple of years and did not come up with a working business case for more than a few routes.
Aside from proven routes like EIN (AMS/DUS as alternative airports) and PMI, there is not a single city on the list that promises a decent (& riskfree) return year-round.
We might not even see more test routes and this experiment is over sooner than later. I am sure however that they try some other routes as well.
One should not forget that MUC works well for LH mostly due to backward integration at T2.
Ryanair looked at MUC very closely over the last couple of years and did not come up with a working business case for more than a few routes.
Aside from proven routes like EIN (AMS/DUS as alternative airports) and PMI, there is not a single city on the list that promises a decent (& riskfree) return year-round.
We might not even see more test routes and this experiment is over sooner than later. I am sure however that they try some other routes as well.
One should not forget that MUC works well for LH mostly due to backward integration at T2.
May 4, 2016, 11:55 am
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HV starts MUC-SXF on 30 May; first German domestic route
http://www.nu.nl/economie/4256913/tr...uitsland-.html
http://www.nu.nl/economie/4256913/tr...uitsland-.html
Feb 13, 2017, 2:52 pm
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... and its over: http://www.reuters.com/article/air-f...-idUSL8N1FY5X7