Compared to last winter, over 123,000 additional seats are on offer.
As well as for the four new routes, the additional capacity will primarily be used for the flight schedules from Schiphol Amsterdam and Eindhoven Airport.
The winter schedule starts on 1 November 2018 and ends on 31 March 2019.
In winter 2018-2019, Transavia is flying to 70 destinations, of which four are new.
Transavia will be flying Amsterdam – Beirut in Lebanon twice a week.
Beirut offers you everything you could want for an ideal city break.
The right temperature, good restaurants, shops and an extensive night life. Transavia is the only airline making Lebanon directly accessible from the Netherlands.
Furthermore, this winter Transavia will be flying from Schiphol Airport to Eilat in Israel.
Eilat is one of the better-known destinations in Israel and it will be flown twice a week this winter, alongside the flights to Tel Aviv.
Eilat is known as a perfect holiday destination for sun lovers because it has summer temperatures almost all year round.
Eilat is a great addition to the popular winter destinations such as Dubai and the Canary Islands.
This winter, Transavia will be flying to Krakow in Poland four times a week from Eindhoven Airport.
Transavia already flies to Poland, to Katowice, from Amsterdam. With the new destination of Krakow, we are making this popular region in Poland even more accessible for people travelling from the Netherlands.
Last but not least, this winter the airline will be flying from Rotterdam The Hague Airport to the Moroccan Nador.
Nador was already one of Transavia’s charter destinations, and you can soon book it directly as a scheduled flight.
With the addition of the new routes Rotterdam-Arrecife and Groningen-Tenerife, these Canary Island destinations are served from no fewer than four Dutch airports Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen and Rotterdam.
With 71 flights per week form its home bases in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Eindhoven Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport.
Transavia is also the best choice for winter sports enthusiasts. Convenient flight schedules with a regular choice of three flights per day allow passengers to tailor their trip to their needs from a short weekend trip to a long ski holiday.
The winter schedule starts on 1 November 2018 and ends on 31 March 2019.
Transavia acknowledges overcapacity in some European leisure markets, but notes North Africa is not struggling right now for tourism and that Turkish demand has made a small improvement.
I think the trend in the past couple of years has been a bit of over-capacity towards Spain, says Oliver Newton, network planner at low-cost leisure operator Transavia at the Routes Europe event in Bilbao.
A lot of people have moved capacity, for example, from Turkey towards Spain and Portugal.
But Newton states that North Africa is actually doing really well, adding that the Morocco market is growing each year and Tunisia will eventually come back as well.
Further boosting fortunes for the Air France-KLM Group carrier is the improving Israeli market, which prompted it to add a service from Amsterdam Schiphol to the resort town of Eilat during the coming winter season.
We’re constantly looking for new destinations, especially in the winter, that have a good climate, that have year-round sun, says Newton.
Eilat was a really good opportunity for us as an alternative to the Canary Islands, Egypt or Dubai.
The Eilat flights will be in addition to new winter services from Amsterdam to Beirut, its first scheduled operations from Rotterdam to Nador in Morocco and a link to Krakow from Eindhoven.
Those markets are helping to offset the impact of reduced demand on Transavia’s mainly charter services to Turkey, he says, where security concerns and political instability in recent years have damaged the country's appeal to tourists.
Demand has reduced quite significantly since about five years ago, he states.
There was a small improvement since last year but it’s not quite reached the levels of five years ago.
He adds that Transavia's overall yields and load factors have been on an upward trend.
Transavia busiest routes from its Netherlands bases are to Spain and Portugal.
Tel Aviv, Nice and Athens also rank highly in terms of seats.
Tourism Observer
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