Archive for the ‘Airlines’ Category
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Germany’s 2nd largest airline, Air Berlin and the Franco-Dutch airline Air France/KLM have signed a code sharing, deal which will come into effect as early as this month. October.
It will mean passengers can buy a single ticket for use on all the other partner’s airlines.
‘Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG’ – to use its official legal name – will use the [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
‘ILA – Berlin’ is one of the world’s major air shows, not as large as Farnborough or Paris but equal in regional importance to other shows like Dubai and Singapore. It is certainly the oldest – the original Berlin air show was in 1909 and a special anniversary was held in 2009 to celebrate the 100th anniversary.
The new ILA-Berlin grounds are to be [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Europe’s A400M cargo transport aircraft will perform only limited flying display at Farnborough.
Airbus will apparently not be flying Europe’s flagship army cargo plane, the A400 at today’s Farnborough Airshow because of concern over recurring engine problems.The construction of the A400M is Europe’s most important defense project and is capable of transporting 37 tons of payload over 8700 kilometers.
Due to this same problem with the [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Berlin ist ja für schnelle Veränderung bekannt. Sehr große Veränderungen werden längerfristig geplant, manchmal ist die einberechnete Zeit jedoch zu kurz. Wie bei der Geschichte der Berliner Flughäfen. Berlin mit seinen Ursprünglich vier Flughäfen war schon immer Dreh- und Angelpunkt für den Luftverkehr.
Die Teilung Deutschlands zwang die Berliner zum umdenken. Da Westberlin eine vergleichsweise kleine Fläche war, mussten die vorhandenen Flugplätze gut [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
BBI – New International Airport of Berlin – as it looked in July 2010 -foto Wikipedia – author Michael F. Mehnert
The new Control tower at BBI – Berlin Brandenburg International - the new International Airport of Berlin was officially inaugurated and put into operation on the evening of 24th March. Since this time, the Schönefeld controllers have coordinated and handled air traffic on [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Europe’s 3rd largest low-cost carrier Air Berlin has said losses widened last year with German state taxes and fuel expenses meant declining margins along with the political unrest in North Africa with the concomitant decline in tourists visiting the region.
German low-cost carrier Air Berlin was thrown a financial life-line in the form of a 30% outright purchase of its shares plus a [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
ITB Berlin has become a driving force in the travel industry and provides leading impulses to a continuously growing market and is rightfully called ‘The World’s Leading Travel Trade Show’. http://www.itb-berlin.de/en/
ITB Berlin is today’s leading B2B-Platform of all tourism industry offers – where supply and demand meet at the right place and is recognized for its unique opportunities to benefit [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
German low-cost carrier Air Berlin has been thrown a financial life-line in the form of a 30% outright purchase of its shares plus a debt-financing agreement from the Abu Dhabi state-controlled airline Etihad Airways – as was reported by this blog last month.
In the announced ‘strategic partnership’ Air Berlin will enter into a code-sharing agreement with Etihad Airways that will [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
German low-cost carrier Air Berlin has been thrown a financial life-line in the form of a 30% outright purchase of its shares plus a debt-financing agreement from the Abu Dhabi state-controlled airline Etihad Airways.
In the announced ‘strategic partnership’ Air Berlin will enter into a code-sharing agreement with Etihad Airways that will see Etihad become Air Berlin’s largest shareholder and [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
While we do not expect any A380 of theirs to be landing any time soon in Berlin, Lufthansa, the largest German airline, has announced that it will increase its Berlin presence next year.
The official name of the new Berlin airport, which is scheduled to open on June 2nd next year is called ‘Willy Brandt Airport’ however its operational 3 letter SITA airport [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
After having held the position for nearly 20 years, Joachim Hunold CEO of Air Berlin, the 3rd largest low-cost carrier in Europe, will step aside amid growing losses.
Air Berlin has since announced that it, along with other German carriers, was suffering from a new German air travel tax along with higher fuel costs and found these for competitive reasons difficult to [...] Continue Reading…
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