INTERVIEW
Transavia moves on to the next step. The President and Chief Executive Officer of Air France's low-cost subsidiary, Nathalie Stubler, announces at the micro-level of Europe 1 its ambition to develop. The company says it wants to recover the destinations of French companies that have disappeared from the air transport landscape, including those of Aigle Azur.
"We already have routes from Nantes and Lyon to Algeria, so Transavia will position itself to obtain these traffic rights from the authorities," says the leader. "We are more interested in the Aigle Azur network because XL Airways is a long-haul airline," she says. The company flew 6 million passengers from January to September 2019, an increase of 10%.
This announcement came just a week after Transavia had abandoned the quota of 40 aircraft that prevented it from developing. This limitation was established in a 2014 agreement to limit the transfer of Air France-KLM activity to the low-cost airline, following a very long strike.
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"We will now be able to write the volume 3 of the history of Transavia," enthuses Nathalie Stubler, which however remains discreet on the new destinations to come. "In general, we announce the destinations as we put them on sale," she says.
The Director General also welcomes the very good results of Transavia France, recalling that the carrier has "a very strong model economically" despite the heavy costs often accused of closing the airline sector. "The company flew 6 million passengers from January to September 2019, an evolution of 10%," she says.