Airlines
Air France Pilots Greenlight Expansion of Transavia France
A new deal allows the Paris Orly-based low-cost carrier to grow beyond the 40 Boeing 737-800 cap imposed in 2014.
Transavia France's Boeing 737 fleet will grow beyond the 40-aircraft limit imposed by the SNPL pilots' union in 2014 under a new agreement reached on Wednesday. (Photo: Air France-KLM)
Transavia France's Boeing 737 fleet will grow beyond the 40-aircraft limit imposed by the SNPL pilots' union in 2014 under a new agreement reached on Wednesday. (Photo: Air France-KLM)

Air France’s powerful SNPL pilots’ union dropped its years-long resistance to the expansion of Transavia and voted to allow the French unit of the Franco-Dutch group’s low-cost carrier to grow beyond 40 aircraft. Air France and the SNPL agreed to the cap in 2014 following a two-week strike by its pilots against plans by the group’s management—at time led by CEO Alexandre de Juniac—to expand Transavia into a pan-European LCC and double its fleet to 100 aircraft by 2017 to help fend off discounters like Ryanair and EasyJet. 


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