Transavia, CEO, Marcel de Nooijer at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Airlines in Transition 2024

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Marcel de Nooijer:Now, we're pretty excited. We took the first Airbus neo A321 into our fleet in December. Actually, commercially started operating the 5th of January. And as you indicate, it is a massive entry into service program because in the coming 6 years we will renew our complete fleet and that will mean that we will go to 52 Airbuses. And yeah, it means phasing in but also phasing out. So it puts a lot of focus within the technical department, a lot of training, but it's for the right course. But because for this aircraft family type, we ensure, let's say, not only customer enhancement but also sustainability coming close to the heart. Currently, we're also developing new destinations. Today, actually, I also announced the fact that we will fly to Granada, where CAPA is currently having the summit. But there's more. We will fly to Tbilisi, Tirana. We just opened up Tromsø and Oslo. So you see that we are developing the network significantly along with the market development, I would say. We are the low-cost carrier within the group, together with Transavia France. So we offer a price-competitive product. Mainly driven to leisure destinations out of the Netherlands, although we also do serve business travel, especially on the small and mid-sized enterprises. But we basically follow where, let's say, our passengers want us to go. And that means that, let's say, we offer 103 destinations predominantly around the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. Now, we work intensively together. Actually, it is one brand. That also means that the complete product and portfolio development is actually singly, in a single way executed. So it's a very strong coordination, cooperation, and we mutually develop the product. Now, one of the great examples of being part of the Air France-KLM Group is the fact that we are able to transition from, for instance, Boeing to Airbus, given the leverage of the group, because together with KLM and Transavia France, We, we went out for a total offer of in total 160 aircraft. And naturally, that is the lever you need to make a complex and also costly transition within reach, which is to the benefit of our customers, but also to the benefit of our surroundings, because with the Airbus, we reduce significantly emissions and also the noise hindrance. So for us, it's a really key lever in our strategy to maintain and even grow our position. We, as you know, in the Netherlands, we are facing a slot constraint situation. So the fact that slots are not widely available anymore, the effect of the Airbus A321 means that we have additional seats on offer. Actually, we grow from 189 on the Boeing towards 233. So that's a significant increase of our capacity. Now, for now, we are very satisfied with the order we placed with the A321s and later in time also a couple of A320s which we need in, for instance, Rotterdam. That's it for now. And what the future will bring, we'll discuss at that particular point in time.

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