10-Jun-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin reported May 2008 traffic with a total of 2.7 million passengers transported by the Air Berlin Group, a 4.6% increase year-on-year. Fleet capacity utilisation improved by 3.3 ppts to reach 80.8%. For the first five months of 2008, the accumulated number of passengers travelling on Air Berlin totalled 10,8 million, an increase of 8.3%. For the period from January to May 2008, capacity utilisation improved by 3.8 ppts to reach 76.2%.
10-Jun-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin announced it will be doubling its direct flights to Copenhagen and Helsinki when its new Winter schedule comes into operation. From Nov-08 onwards, there will be a morning and evening flight to Copenhagen and Helsinki from Berlin on weekdays. At weekends there will be one flight a day. While the capacity from Berlin-Tegel to Copenhagen is being increased, the number of flights available from Düsseldorf to Helsinki will be doubled.
30-May-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin announced (29-May-08) it has embarked on a “stringent price and cost optimisation programme” for the remainder of 2008.
28-May-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin announced (27-May-08) plans to reduce Duesseldorf-Shanghai frequency from five to three times weekly, effective late Jun-08.
28-May-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin is reducing the number of its flights between Düsseldorf and Shanghai from the end of June. From July onwards there will only be three flights a week, rather than five. The outbound flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, the inbound flights on Wednesdays, Fridays and Mondays.
26-May-2008 GERMANY :
(XFN Asia) Air Berlin Plc. stated it sold LTU plus, a service centre that was part of its holiday airline LTU, to focus on its core business of operating flights. LTU was sold to MIC GmbH, owned by Juergen Marbach, and to Intro Aviation GmbH, controlled by Rudolf Woehrl. No financial details were disclosed. Both Marbach and Woehrl are former shareholders of LTU, which was taken over by Air Berlin last year. LTU plus will continue to provide services to Air Berlin for at least two years.
22-May-2008 GERMANY :
(XFN Asia) Air Berlin Plc stated that the German cartel office has again extended the deadline for its review of Air Berlin’s planned acquisition of low cost carrier, Condor, from Thomas Cook by two months until 11-Aug-08.
07-May-2008 GERMANY :
Gate Gourmet has agreed to purchase airline catering units in five German cities from Air Berlin and SCK Sky Catering Kitchen. In addition, Air Berlin has agreed to a new long-term catering contract with Gate Gourmet in Germany and the rest of Europe.
01-May-2008 GERMANY :
Air Berlin launched its long-haul routes to China on 01-May-08, with five flights a week from Düsseldorf to the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai. Air Berlin will offer connecting flights from Germany - including from Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Switzerland from Zurich and Austria from Vienna, to both destinations. Air Berlin will operate the routes with Airbus A330s equipment.
29-Apr-2008 GERMANY :
Just as the airports in Berlin are being consolidation following the weekend referendum, airberlin confirmed this week that it remains determined to acquire a 75% shareholding in Condor in Feb-09, and the remaining 25% in 2010.
