The Dutch airline Transavia will serve three more destinations from Brussels International Airport in Zaventem next summer, it announced on Wednesday.
The subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group will also base a third aircraft at Brussels Airport, where it says it intends to remain active in the long term.
The three new destinations are Bari (Italy), Marrakech (Morocco) and Thessaloniki (Greece). They will join nine other cities which were served during the summer holiday season, which is now coming to an end: Heraklion, Zakynthos and Santorini (Greece), Malaga, Seville, Alicante, Ibiza and Tenerife (Spain), and Faro (Portugal). In 2022, during the airline's first summer of operation at Brussels Airport, there were only four operating routes.
Since its arrival in the capital, the airline has seen a growing demand for tickets to summer and winter destinations (the carrier also connects Innsbruck and Salzburg in Austria), particularly from customers living in the south of the Netherlands. Occupancy rates on its aircraft are now approaching 90%, according to Transavia boss Marcel de Nooijer.
A number of these existing destinations will therefore be served more frequently to meet this growing demand, which is why Transavia will be stationing a third aircraft in Brussels. The Dutch carrier says it is staying in Zaventem for the long term and plans to expand further.
The company will soon also serve Oslo, the capital of Norway, from Eindhoven, not far from the Belgian border, from the end of February 2024.
