It has been announced by Airbus, that going into this year 2011 –in which it will celebrate its 40th anniversary – its sales overtook its fierce rival Boeing with a total sales order book of 510 airplanes – this figure being an accumulation of all aircraft types.
Airbus last week also celebrated its 10,000th aircraft sale when it announced an almost 4 billion Euro order for its [...] Continue Reading…
Air Berlin disclosed today that it managed to increase its 2010 cumulative passenger boardings, carrying circa 34 million airline passengers – an increase of almost 4% over 2009 -so a good year for Germany’s 2nd largest aviation company after state controlled Lufthansa.
Air Berlin, is presently headquarted in Berlin and employs 8,300 people , many of whom are based in Germany’s capital. We wrote about their partnership with the ONEWORLD [...] Continue Reading…
Germany’s sophisticated, well thought-out infrastructure – its complex road and traffic system were thrown into a complete state of flux yesterday by the heavy snow accompanied by wind which was brought by blizzard ‘Petra’.
About 100 flights were cancelled from and into Berlin’s two major airports Berlin Tegel and Berlin Schoenefeld/BBI.
The city has been covered and blanketed in heavy snow throughout all of yesterday, [...] Continue Reading…
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Part 2 -How I got to Berlin?
I flew from Dublin Airport in Ireland to Berlin, Schoenefeld with Aer Lingus.
Ryanair also provide one flight daily but [...] Continue Reading…
Air Berlin Airbus 319 – foto Wikipedia – source Arcturus
Air Berlin to move Nurnberg/Hanover flights to London Gatwick Airport
Air Berlin has disclosed that it plans to move its London to Nuremberg & Hanover services over to Gatwick airport – from Stansted – early in the new year.
Air Berlin at present offers London-Stansted/Dusseldorf, Hanover, Munster, Nuremberg and Paderborn but plans in Feb/2011 to [...] Continue Reading…
Air Berlin -Germany’s privately owned and 2nd largest airline after partially state-owned Lufthansa, reported earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) – to 53 million Euro – this is up from a year earlier.
Air Berlin’s total revenue increased to 1.241 billion Euro from 974 million Euro over a similar corresponding period in 2009.
In related operational news the airline has announced that it [...] Continue Reading…
Lufthansa has started operating long-haul B747-400 aircraft between Berlin Tegel airport and Frankfurt – along with some other domestic routes to Hamburg from Munich and even the shorter distance flights between Frankfurt and Munich.
This rather unusual flight schedule for such a long-distance large aircraft will initially occur over a 3 week period.
The deployment of the Lufthansa Boeing 747-400′s will link the airlines operational base in Frankfurt [...] Continue Reading…
Air Berlin aircraft at TEGEL Berlin – Wikipedia/Air Berlin
Air Berlin, Germany’s 2nd largest German airline behind Lufthansa reported an 8.7 % in passenger traffic this September over the same period last year.
Some of the increase was due to recent acquisitions which included TUIfly along with increasing its ownership share in its Austrian partner carrier NIKI.
Air Berlin carried 3.65 million passengers in September [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/Vienna
Pilots at ‘Air Berlin’ and its Austrian airline subsidiary ‘ Fly Niki’ are threatening to go on strike later at the end of August, the Vereinigung Cockpit union has said.
On Monday 99% of Air Berlin pilots voted to strike during high season at the end of August if the airline does not meet their demands in an ongoing dispute over pay scales [...] Continue Reading…
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