19-Aug-2011
This morning, Joachim Hunold, airberlin's CEO, announced that he intends to offer the Board of Directors his resignation from the office as CEO of the company as per 1 September 2011. Mr. Joachim Hunold would like to remain bound to the company for the future as a Non-Executive Director and recommends that Mr. Hartmut Mehdorn, who is already a member of the Board of Directors of the company, becomes his interim successor as CEO.
18-Aug-2011
Starting 09 December 2011, Wizz Air, the largest low fare †low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, adds Eindhoven to its destinations from Riga International airport (RIX). The airline will offer the new Riga †Eindhoven service initially 2 times a week (Mondays and Fridays).
11-Aug-2011
As of today the first Boeing 737-800 with the new engine type CFM56-7BE has been added to the airberlin fleet. At the same time the aircraft with the registration D-ABKW is also one of the first Boeing 737NG with the advanced engine technology delivered to a European airline.
11-Aug-2011
airberlin and the Russian airline S7 have extended their codeshare agreement and now operate 47 joint routes. The additional services to numerous destinations within Russia are now available for booking.
08-Aug-2011
In July 2011, airberlin welcomed 3,809,401 guests on board, i.e. 2.9 percent more than in the corresponding month of the previous year (July 2010: 3,700,971 passengers). Fleet capacity utilization for July increased by 3.3 percentage points, i.e. from 81.2 to 84.5 percent. As compared to July 2010, capacity was reduced by 1.1 percent.
28-Jul-2011
Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today (Wed 27th July) confirmed that it had instructed its lawyers to file a complaint with the CAA and Competition Commission, demanding that they revise the current price cap at Stansted to eliminate what Ryanair believes are monopoly abuses and overcharging of Stansted’s airlines over the past five years (2007-2011) during which:
25-Jul-2011
This weekend is when schools break up in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. airberlin is expecting around 75,000 passengers at Düsseldorf airport alone.
21-Jul-2011
FL Technics, an integrated aircraft maintenance and repair organization further expands its capabilities and signs its first contract with Wizz Air †the largest low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe. FL Technics has been entrusted to provide maintenance services for the airline’s Airbus 320 at its newly opened base in Vilnius International Airport.
20-Jul-2011
Pegasus Airlines and IZair, a 100 % subsidiary of Pegasus, will optimize their flight planning processes with Lido/Flight from Lufthansa Systems. The airlines and the IT provider recently signed a five-year contract covering the implementation of the solution.
