07
May
2020
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11:00
Europe/Amsterdam

Transavia brings 86 Dutch people home from the Canary Islands

Summary

On Wednesday, May 6, Transavia again operated a repatriation flight, this time to the Canary Islands. The Transavia crew brought a total of 86 stranded passengers home from Tenerife and Gran Canaria.

Over the past seven weeks, Transavia carried out eight repatriation flights under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so that Dutch and other EU citizens stuck in Tunisia, Spain and Portugal could return home.

Transavia previously operated more than 50 additional flights on its own initiative from Morocco, Egypt, Spain and Turkey, among others. Transavia was able to repatriate more than 8,000 passengers.

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