Transavia safety record

Transavia has flown since November 1966, when its first flight took a Dutch orchestra and dance company from Amsterdam to Naples, and in almost sixty years it has never had a fatal accident, nor lost an aircraft in one. It was set up as a charter airline, flew its first scheduled route, Amsterdam–London Gatwick, in 1986, and has been owned by KLM since the 1990s; today it is the low-cost airline of the Air France-KLM group. It flies Boeing 737-800s, which are being replaced by Airbus A321neos and A320neos, the first of which arrived in December 2023.

That record includes Transavia France, flying from Paris-Orly and other French airports since 2007, and the short-lived Transavia Denmark (2008–2011), which flew under the same name. Together they carried about 26 million passengers in 2025.

The investigated events in its history ended with everyone safe. In 1997 a 737 made an emergency landing at Nuremberg after a rod in its tail controls broke in flight, and a Boeing 757's nose gear collapsed on a hard landing in strong gusts at Schiphol; the aircraft slid to a stop and everyone got out. In 2014 a 737 left Groningen with too little engine power set after a weight miscalculation and became airborne about 60 metres before the end of the runway, which the Dutch Safety Board investigated. In 2019 a Transavia France flight from Lyon to Tel Aviv met severe turbulence just after the seat-belt signs came on; French investigators counted eight passengers and two cabin crew slightly hurt.

Transavia is not a member of IATA, the airlines' trade body. Its airlines are overseen by the Dutch and French aviation authorities under European (EASA) rules, and serious incidents are investigated independently by the Dutch Safety Board and France's BEA.