May 22, 2012
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National: 20 May 12
After the embarrassing cancellation of the new Berlin airport opening and the shock of the new date being in nine months, the team is under extra pressure to make sure it works this time.
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National: 17 May 12
Berlin’s new airport should open next March officials announced on Thursday - after firing the chief planner who signally failed to get it ready for the due date of June 3, forcing an embarrassing cancellation.
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National: 14 Apr 12
The top management of Germany’s second largest airline does not tool around town in an oversized Mercedes or BMW, but uses a Mini as a company car, a report to be published Sunday said.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 12
French-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM is considering teaming up with Air Berlin, a move that would open two new competition fronts against Germany’s biggest airline Lufthansa, a newspaper report says.
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National: 17 Feb 12
Travel chaos at Frankfurt Airport is expected to worsen on Friday, as air traffic ground staff extend their strike. Hundreds of flights could be cancelled at Germany's biggest air hub.
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National: 21 Jan 12
The former spokesman for embattled German President Christian Wulff has been hit with new accusations over alleged perks from an event manager. A new report claims Olaf Glaeseker was treated to free flights during his time as spokesman.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 11
Germany's second-largest airline Air Berlin said Monday that United Arab Emirates carrier Etihad Airways had become its largest shareholder with a 29.21 percent stake.
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Business & Money: 25 Nov 11
Struggling airline Air Berlin, Germany's second-biggest carrier, is on the hunt for investors and has already begun talks with potential partners from China or the Gulf, a German daily reported Friday.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Air Berlin has been offering special perks to members of the German parliament, something which an anti-corruption group charges could cross the line into unethical lobbying.
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Business & Money: 22 Sep 11
Fearing an economic downturn, Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa is cutting flights and capacity, the company announced on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, is announcing dramatic savings plans to improve its results by €200 million a year, by reducing its fleet from the current figure of 170 to 152 by next summer.
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Society: 5 Sep 11
Air Berlin is considering asking its flight attendants to make some announcements in regional German dialects after a YouTube video of one of its attendants speaking Swabian became a web sensation.
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Business & Money: 18 Aug 11
The chairman of Germany’s second biggest airline Air Berlin resigned on Thursday, just after announcing increased losses and a drastic savings plan. He will be initially replaced by former Deutsche Bahn chairman Hartmut Mehdorn.
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National: 28 Apr 11
German authorities are reportedly probing the airline Lufthansa for allegedly distorting competition among business travellers.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 11
Germany's second biggest airline, Air Berlin, plunged into loss last year owing to poor weather, the Icelandic volcano and strikes. The carrier also faces significant challenges in the current year.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 11
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa said Wednesday its business got a big lift last year from recovery in air travel, reporting that its traffic jumped 17.2 percent to 90.2 million passengers.
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National: 10 Dec 10
Winter weather continued to wreak havoc on German air travel on Friday, with more snow, sleet and freezing temperatures forcing airports to cancel flights across the country.
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National: 8 Dec 10
Pilots from the airlines Germania and Tuifly walked off the job Wednesday morning, affecting flights around the country.
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National: 22 Nov 10
A court formally charged a senior officer in Namibia's airport police on Monday for placing a fake bomb at the country's airport to be put on a Germany-bound plane last week, but postponed his case.
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National: 19 Nov 10
A suspected bomb intercepted in Namibia that was to be put on a Munich-bound charter plane was only a US-made dummy used to test security checks, Germany's interior minister said Friday.
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National: 18 Nov 10
Namibian police have hindered a possible terrorist attack on a flight from Windhoek to Munich, federal police said Thursday. A suspected explosive device was found in a piece of luggage discovered as the LTU flight was being loaded.
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National: 7 Sep 10
Aviation authorities and carrier Air Berlin are testing a new system of steeper landings and curved flight patterns to avoid residential areas in a bid to reduce ground noise by up to 40 percent, allowing more flights to land at night.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 10
Air Berlin pilots will strike during the high-traffic holiday month of August if the airline does not meet their demands in an ongoing dispute over wages and benefits, pilots’ union Cockpit said on Monday.
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Business & Money: 15 Jul 10
German airlines reacted angrily Thursday to details of a proposed new tax on passengers leaving the country's airports that could boost ticket prices for long-haul destinations by €26 ($33).
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Business & Money: 6 May 10
The knock-on damage to airlines because of last month’s volcano ash cloud over Europe is becoming clear after Germany’s second biggest carrier, Air Berlin, on Thursday revealed a sharp drop in the number of seats it filled in April.
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National: 27 Apr 10
German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer will host a meeting for airlines and aviation officials in Berlin on Tuesday to review ways to handle future problems with volcanic ash.
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National: 21 Apr 10
Air traffic authorities’ Wednesday decision to lift restrictions on German airspace – effectively declaring it safe to fly – was based on the same data previously criticised as insufficient by airlines, officials told The Local.
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National: 20 Apr 10
German authorities have extended the closure of the country's air space to 2 am Wednesday due to the giant plume of volcanic ash, though some airlines continued to operate flights with special permission.
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National: 20 Apr 10
Many German airlines resumed service on Tuesday morning despite another extension on the flight ban until at least 8 pm due to volcanic ash still hovering over Europe.
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National: 19 Apr 10
Germany's DFS air safety agency has extended until 2 am Tuesday the shutdown of its air space because of volcanic ash.
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National: 19 Apr 10
Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer has defended extensions to the flight ban against mounting criticism from the airline industry that decisions are being made on insufficient data.
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National: 18 Apr 10
Germany's two largest airlines have questioned the sense of the flight ban - now extended until 8 pm on Sunday as a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland continues to occupy European air space.
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National: 3 Jan 10
An Air Berlin Boeing 737 ran off the runway after abandoning its take-off at Dortmund airport on Sunday, said the plane's manufacturer, but all the passengers emerged unhurt from the incident.
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National: 7 Sep 09
Service sector trade union Verdi called for a day-long strike for flight attendants of Air Berlin’s subsidiary airline LTU in Düsseldorf on Monday. Heavy delays are expected.
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National: 31 Aug 09
Air Berlin, LTU and dba customers across Germany should expect delays and cancelled flights on Monday after pilots’ union Cockpit called for a 16-hour strike in an ongoing wage dispute.
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Business & Money: 15 Jul 09
The Federation of German Consumer Associations (VZBV) has warned discount airlines Air Berlin and Ryanair to cease charging passengers hidden fees, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday.
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Society: 9 Jun 09
Some 200 people protested late on Monday at a Berlin airport against a mass deportation of Vietnamese asylum-seekers from Germany and Poland.
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National: 6 May 09
The largest deportation of Vietnamese nationals in years is planned for the beginning of June, a spokesperson for the German Federal Police in Potsdam told daily Berliner Zeitung this week.
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National: 27 Apr 09
Germany's leading tourism group, TUI, said Monday it would cancel Mexico City visits until May 5 owing to the swine flu outbreak and would offer alternatives to clients who had planned to travel to other parts of Mexico.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 09
Germany’s second largest airline Air Berlin fell deeper into debt in 2008, the company announced on Monday.
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National: 18 Nov 08
Airline passengers across Germany suffered flight delays and cancellations on Tuesday when pilots’ union Cockpit called limited strikes for LTU and dba.
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National: 30 Sep 08
An unclaimed suitcase caused a security emergency that closed off a portion of Berlin’s Tegel airport on Tuesday morning.
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Society: 15 Sep 08
Passengers on an Air Berlin flight that made two false starts in Nuremberg on Sunday banded together and forced the pilot to ground the plane. They then collected signatures and waited for a replacement aircraft.
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Business & Money: 28 Aug 08
Lufthansa on Thursday said it’s in talks to buy 45 percent of Brussels Airlines for €65 million just hours after German-owned British company Tuitravel plc said it was meeting with Lufthansa and Thomas Cook Group about merging their airline divisions.
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Business & Money: 23 Aug 08
A new budget airline for Germany is on the way, according to a report in Der Spiegel on Saturday, with Lufthansa, TUI and Arcandor working to fuse their low-cost airlines into a giant to challenge Air Berlin.
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Business & Money: 25 Jul 08
Troubled carrier Air Berlin has alleged that Dresdner Bank profited at the airline's expense by manipulating its share price, in a letter sent to German stock market watchdog BaFin.
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Business & Money: 11 Jul 08
British travel group Thomas Cook has dropped plans to sell its German unit Condor to low-cost airline Air Berlin, and has also suspended a share buy-back programme, Thomas Cook said on Friday.
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Business & Money: 27 May 08
Warren Buffet, the world's richest man, might have come to Germany last week looking to buy solid, family-run firms. But the country still has a complicated relationship to foreign investment, writes AFP's Aurelia End.
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National: 12 May 08
The current record highs in oil prices will force some airlines into bankruptcy, including German rival Air Berlin, the outspoken Ryanair chief told a German newspaper on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 7 Apr 08
German airlines remain cool to in-flight mobile services despite EU approval on Monday of technology allowing air passengers to use their phones throughout Europe.
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Business & Money: 7 Apr 08
Russian billionaire Leonard Blavatnik wants to invest in the German low-cost airline Air Berlin, airline boss Joachim Hunold told the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel on Monday.
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