Air France-KLM’s Transavia Scraps 210 Flights Over Jet Shortage

  • Budget unit has canceled 210 flights across July and August
  • Aircraft shortages hit the airline at peak of summer season

A Transavia passenger jet at Eindhoven airport.

Photographer: Rob Engelaar/AFP/Getty Images
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Air-France KLM’s Transavia unit is scrapping 210 flights this summer as a shortage of planes limits passenger capacity during the peak travel season.

The low-cost airline was waiting to lease Boeing Co. 737 aircraft that were previously operated by Blue Air, a bankrupt Romanian airline, but late delivery and paperwork issues meant the planes couldn’t be deployed, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.