Air Berlin

  • Fake Namibia bomb triggers alerts

    Just three weeks after an improvised terrorist bomb was found aboard a UPS cargo aircraft, a fake bomb found at a Namibia airport triggered security alerts there and in Germany. The device was bound for Munich aboard an Air Berlin flight. The sca…

    26 November 2010

  • EUROPE & CIS: Air Berlin cuts order book with Boeing

    Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline has agreed with Boeing to ‘streamline’ its order book by cutting its order of 787 Dreamliners from 25 to 15 and to reduce the number of options from ten to five. Overall this could save Air Berlin U…

    01 April 2010

  • SINGAPORE: BOC/Air Berlin strike deal on 737-800s

    BOC Aviation has signed agreements with Air Berlin, Germany’s second largest carrier, for the purchase and leaseback of three new Boeing 737-800 scheduled for delivery in February, July and August this year. All three aircraft are powered by CFM56…

    01 March 2010

  • Air Berlin shelves plan to sell Liesure Cargo

    Air Berlin, Europe’s third-largest discount carrier said it has shelved plans to sell its standalone cargo unit - Leisure Cargo - after failing to attract a bid that matched the company’s own valuation and said it is reviewing an order for Boei…

    28 August 2009

  • Europe & CIS : Air Berlin, S7 and Niki join forces

    S7 Airlines, Air Berlin and Austria’s Niki are entering into a broad codesharing alliance, ending S7’s bid for Austrian. Air Berlin and Niki will put their codes on many of S7’s Russian domestic routes while S7 will grow its international presence b…

    01 November 2008