Transavia is doing everything it can to solve the problems as quickly as possible
Transavia canceled a number of return flights at the very last minute, including from the Spanish cities of Valencia and Málaga to Eindhoven Airport. The popular Dutch airline Transavia is currently experiencing a shortage of aircraft due to maintenance problems. As a result, several flights have been canceled, which has led to great dissatisfaction among travelers who are now forced to stay at their departure location.
The canceled flights have led to great frustration and inconvenience among affected travelers. Many of them had already arrived at their departure location, ready to start their vacation or to return home. Due to the cancellations, they are now stuck at the airports and have to look for alternative travel options.
Transavia understands the dissatisfaction among the affected travelers and has indicated that it will do everything possible to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. The airline is working with other airlines to arrange replacement flights for affected passengers.
The airline emphasizes that the safety of passengers always comes first and that maintenance work is necessary to guarantee that safety.
For hundreds of passengers, the cancellation of flights means that they are forced to extend their holidays. Transavia says they are in any case entitled to compensation in the form of vouchers, which can be used for future flights. Travelers are advised to contact Transavia for information about compensation and possible replacement flight options.
Everything has to do with the tightness of the Transavia fleet and the lack of safety certification.
Transavia already announced before the May holidays that it had to intervene heavily in its network and recently announced that there has been a shortage of available aircraft due to unexpected and necessary maintenance work. Due to this shortage, the company is forced to cancel a number of flights, which has direct consequences for travelers who are now forced to change their holiday plans. Four of the six aircraft have to be grounded because of problems with paperwork.
safety certification
There is no safety certification for the aircraft, which Transavia leases from the Romanian airline Blue Air, which flew exclusively with Boeing 737s. Five of them, which were leased from the Air Lease Corporation (ALC), went to work for Transavia, which is the largest airline in the Netherlands after KLM. However, the budget flyer is now six planes short. Transavia does not want to mention numbers, but says it concerns "5 percent of all flights for the month of April and May". That would amount to more than 50.000 passengers for which a solution must be found. This is reported by a well-established source within the company de Volkskrant.
package trip
A spokesperson for the Consumers' Association mentions this in a statement interview in De Morgen “super bales”. “If you have been looking forward to a holiday, this is annoying news. Especially if you have incurred further costs and now have nowhere to go”. According to the union, there is no travel insurance that reimburses this consequential damage. “That is bad luck. The only thing you can do in the future is book a package holiday. Then you get flight, accommodation and transport in one. If the flight is then cancelled, the provider must offer an alternative. Not only for the flight, but also for any changes to the rest of the journey, such as accommodation and transport.”
Update
The problems at Transavia continue. Once again, the airline has canceled 14 flights to and from Eindhoven Airport for Friday and Saturday. Travelers from or to Copenhagen, Seville, Barcelona, Faro, Athens, Lisbon and Alicante have been duped.
