Amsterdam and Seville Tourism Highlighted as Transavia Marks Ten Million Passengers: What You Need to Know

Published on December 13, 2025

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Amsterdam and Seville tourism stand at the centre of a landmark year for Transavia, as the Dutch low-cost airline surpasses ten million passengers in 2025 for the first time in its sixty-year history. The symbolic ten millionth traveller flew on a Transavia service from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Seville, underlining the carrier’s focus on leisure and city-break tourism connecting the Netherlands with popular Southern European destinations.​

The record confirms Transavia’s role as a key tourism enabler for the Dutch market, offering affordable flights that support outbound holiday demand and inbound visitors using Amsterdam as a gateway to the wider Netherlands. It also reflects how resilient city-pair tourism demand between northern and southern Europe has become, even as airlines and airports adapt to sustainability and capacity constraints.​

Ten million passengers: a milestone for Dutch tourism connectivity

Transavia reports that it will welcome ten million passengers in the 2025 calendar year, a significant step up from the approximately 9.5 million passengers carried annually in recent years. This growth is anchored in strong leisure tourism flows from Dutch and Belgian airports to more than hundred destinations across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, many of them classic holiday and city-break markets.​

As part of the Air France–KLM Group, Transavia has become the second-largest airline in the Netherlands, feeding tourism to and from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Brussels. The ten million milestone underscores how low-cost capacity supports the wider tourism ecosystem, from travel agencies and tour operators to hospitality partners in key destinations such as Spain, Portugal, Greece and Morocco.​

Strong demand for affordable air travel and tourism

Transavia links the record to robust demand for affordable leisure travel, particularly from families and younger travellers seeking value-conscious trips without sacrificing frequency or choice of destinations. The airline’s network strategy emphasises high-demand tourism routesfrom Dutch airports to sun and city destinations, reinforcing Amsterdam’s position as a leading European origin market for tourism.​

The milestone year also coincides with a refreshed brand identity and expanded route map, which together have strengthened Transavia’s visibility among European tourists and boosted bookings for short-break, beach and cultural tourism. This dynamic is particularly visible on routes such as Amsterdam–Seville, where consistent demand highlights the appeal of Spanish city tourism to Dutch travellers and the value of direct low-cost links in stimulating visitor numbers on both ends of the route.​

Fleet renewal with Airbus A321neo and sustainable tourism goals

To support both growth and sustainability, Transavia is engaged in a comprehensive fleet renewal that will see all Boeing 737 aircraft replaced by Airbus A320neo family jets, including the Airbus A321neo. The airline notes that these new aircraft are cleaner, quieter and more fuel-efficient, with lower CO₂ emissions and a smaller noise footprint, contributing to sector-wide ambitions to reduce the environmental impact of aviation.​

The A321neo offers more seats per flight and lower per-passenger fuel burn, which is particularly important on dense tourism routes between northern and southern Europe. For destinations such as Seville, the Canary Islands, the Greek islands and North African resorts, this enables airlines to accommodate strong demand for holiday tourism while keeping emissions per traveller in check, aligning with European climate targets and growing consumer expectations around sustainable tourism choices.​

Network growth from the Netherlands and Belgium

Looking ahead, Transavia is preparing further network expansion from both the Netherlands and Belgium, building on its existing presence at Amsterdam Schiphol, Rotterdam The Hague, Eindhoven and Brussels Airport. The airline has steadily increased its schedule from Brussels, adding routes to high-potential tourism destinations such as Alicante, Faro, Ibiza, Heraklion, Tenerife and Marrakech, and is positioning the Belgian capital as a complementary base to capacity-constrained Amsterdam.​

Plans to open or enhance a base at Brussels Airport by 2026, including a dedicated crew base, are expected to support additional tourism-driven routes that tap demand from both Dutch and Belgian travellers. This strategy strengthens cross-border Benelux tourism connectivity, giving more residents access to low-cost flights and enabling destinations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to diversify their source markets.​

Impact on European tourism and customer experience

Transavia’s ten million passengers in 2025 illustrate the airline’s role in sustaining and expanding European tourism flows, especially around city-break, sun-and-sea and event travel segments. By combining high seat capacity, a broad leisure network and an evolving digital customer experience, the carrier helps keep air travel accessible for price-sensitive tourists while supporting the year-round viability of routes beyond peak summer.​

Ongoing investments in customer experience, including improved digital booking tools, ancillary services and reliability measures, are designed to make travel planning smoother for leisure passengers who increasingly book dynamic packages and independent trips. As Amsterdam and Seville tourism benefit from the visibility of this milestone flight, the wider Transavia network stands to gain from renewed confidence among travelers, reinforcing the airline’s position as a cornerstone of Dutch and European tourism connectivity in the years ahead.

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