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…
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…
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…
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…
Berlin / Frankfurt 07-08-2010
Air Berlin invited to switch focus to Frankfurt
The first budget airline to have been accepted into any international Airline Alliance, a club of older legacy carriers -Air Berlin, is being actively courted by ‘Frankfurt Airport’ to abandon Berlin.
Using the logic that it could better serve other ‘OneWorld’ alliance members by centralizing its operations Frankfurt instead of its main present [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 06-04-2010
An Boeing 737-700, of low cost German carrier ‘Air Berlin’ arriving on a domestic flight today from Munchen to Hamburg was hit by a number of geese on its final approach to land.
The airplane made a safe landing and is presently still in Hamburg awaiting further inspections – the birds hit the nose, windshield and CFM jet engines.
The expression “bird-brain” is not [...] Continue Reading…
The German low-cost airline Air Berlin will cut back its order of Boeing 787 aircraft to 15 from 25 and at the same time reduce its options from 10 to 5 aircraft.
The decision comes as part of an effort to adapt to a change in European market conditions and to meet its own specific internal operative requirements, which were not disclosed.
The cancellation [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 04-01-2010
An Air Berlin 737-800, with 165 passengers -destination Spain’s Canary Islands – ran off the runway at Dortmund airport on Sunday.
The pilot -for as of yet unknown reasons -decided to abort the takeoff at the last instance, braked but came off the runway in icy conditions. The aircrafts front wheels came embedded in a snow-covered slope.
No one was injured [...] Continue Reading…
German low-fare carrier Air Berlin has indicated today, that the 2009 debt level it presently carries may be reduced by around EUR100 million if the company sells some of its aircraft before the end of the fiscal year.
It’s present debt is circa 550 million Euro, down from 760 million Euro at the same time in 2008.
Based in Berlin, the company reported net [...] Continue Reading…
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