Air Berlin

Founded by Americans in 1978, Air Berlin initially operated holiday charter flights from West Berlin to Mediterranean vacation destinations. German reunification saw the airline rapidly expand, and Air Berlin became one of the largest European carriers.
Future plans and expansion hinged on eventually basing operations at Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport, which was originally due to open in 2011 but suffered rolling delays and is now not expected to open, if at all, until 2020.
Air Berlin scaled back on operations over several years and, with sustained financial losses, finally flew its final flight in October 2017. Nearly immediately Lufthansa swooped in and purchased 81 of its aircraft and employed more than 3,000 former Air Berlin employees, with Easyjet also taking a smaller piece of the Air Berlin pie.

airberlin responds to ground handling problems in Berlin-Tegel and postpones new US routes to California

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The continued ground handling problems at Berlin-Tegel Airport have prompted airberlin to make changes to the planned expansion of the USA connections from May...

The ver.di union has called for a strike by ground handling on Friday, March 10th, 2017 at the Berlin-Tegel airports

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The ver.di union has once again called for a strike by ground handling on Friday, March 10th, 2017 at the Berlin-Tegel airports. The strike...

Eurowings will integrate Brussels Airlines by 2019

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At the ITB today, Eurowings' CEO Garnadt explained the schedule for the integration of Brussels Airlines. But for the branding there is still no...

Three new A330 to join airberlin fleet

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Nearly 1,000 extra seats to boost extended long-haul flight networkairberlin is to add three wide-body Airbus 330-200 aircraft to its fleet as it builds...

Trade union Verdi calls for a warning strike by ground handling for 8 February 2017 at Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart

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The German union Verdi has called for a warning strike by ground handling for Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart airports. The...

The Board of struggling airberlin appoints a new CEO

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airberlin has announced today that Thomas Winkelmann (57) will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of airberlin group.Mr. Winkelmann will take over as...

Austrian Airlines concludes wet lease agreement with Air Berlin

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• Transfer of five A320 aircraft including pilots and flight attendants • Aircraft will be operated using the Austrian Airlines design • Fleet integration in March...

Eurowings wet-leases 33 aircraft for six years from Air Berlin

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33 aircraft for Eurowings / Airline hires 33 aircraft from Air Berlin on competitive terms on a six-year lease / Comprehensive wet lease agreement...

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airberlin expands market leadership in Berlin-Tegel hub: More services to European metropolises

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Paris: four times a day from Berlin-Tegel to Charles-de-Gaulle instead of Orly More flights all year round from Berlin-Tegel to Warsaw and Krakow ...

Comprehensive reorientation of airberlin (and sale of Niki to Etihad) enables long-term growth

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First flights to New Zealand available for airberlin customers through codeshare with Virgin Australia

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airberlin and Virgin Australia have added 26 new codeshare routes since September airberlin customers for the first time can fly to New Zealand after the...

TUI AG: Supervisory Board gives green light for further steps towards the creation of airline joint venture with Etihad

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TUI fly GmbH to become part of the planned airline joint venture between Etihad and TUI Negotiations expected to be finalised in the...

airberlin adds more flights to Prague

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Four daily flights from Berlin, starting end of March 2017 Codeshare with Czech Airlines for the Dusseldorf – Prague routeStarting end of March...

airberlin hires 500 flight attendants in Berlin, Dusseldorf and Munich

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New destination: first airberlin flights depart from Dusseldorf airport to Geneva

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airberlin now flies up to three times a day from its Dusseldorf hub to Geneva. The new route is particularly attractive for business travellers...

airberlin launches far-reaching restructuring programme

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airberlin significantly increases its load factor on declining number of passengers in October

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airberlin increased its load factor in October by a significant 2.1 percentage points, to 86.3 per cent, compared to the same month last year,...

airberlin: the new Business Class is taking off

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Etihad Airways Partners (EAP) airlines support airberlin

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Members of the Etihad Airways Partners (EAP) group of airlines are cooperating with airberlin to help the airline overcome operational disruption.Significant flight cancellations at...

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