I also flew with air berlin and it was one of the best flights I have had. The crew and everything was wonderful. I will miss air berlin and always remember them.
Yh I’m just so sad they are gone literally my favourite airline but since Eurowings repainted their air Berlin aircraft I’ve not been able to see that beautiful livery wich I still love to this day (but that new logo looks so good tho I’m really sad it never happened)
I miss the chocolate hearts of airberlin at the end of flights and funnily last year I found one of them in my bag wich is funny since it was in there for so long. (You will not be forgotten AirBerlin❤️)
The rights for the name "airberlin" had been sold to the mother company of fellow German airline "Sundair", with their fleet consisting mostly of former airberlin planes and even the very last one that features the iconic AB livery, that only makes sence to mee. I heard rumors about their comeback, then with the new livery they wanted to introduce in 2018/2019. Lets hope the buyer makes AB flying once again.
Lovely airline. I was a platinum member when they went bankrupt. They had lie flat business seats way before Lufthansa installed theirs and super upgrade deals for very little miles. Shame i lost 120.000 miles with the bankruptcy. That was like 5 upgrades 😢 Their route TXL-IBZ was also great.
Somewhat wild fact, but my first international trip without family was on Air Berlin. They went bust about a year after that trip, and I quite liked them. We flew JFK-TXL on their A330 in July 2016, then our return flight was TXL-DUS-EWR (i think it was EWR, could have been to JFK). I think of them like JetBlue vs. United or Spirit. JetBlue is miles better than Spirit (tbh ell walking across antarctica naked would be better than spirit but I digress) JetBlue and has more in common with a full service airline than Southwest does, JetBlue can't quite match something like United or Delta but not too far behind. I think Air Berlin was positioned like that, but sadly it lacked the biggest advantage that allows JetBlue to be so successful, after United/Delta/American, JetBlue is the only decent airline in the US that isn't laughably cheap or bargain budget. Spirit and Frontier are memes, saying you like to fly Southwest, is like bragging about shopping at walmart.
Certainly not to EWR. I worked at DUS in 2016, for an affiliated longhaul-carrier and AB only had 2 flights out of DUS to the NYC-area - AB7450 & AB7480! Both flights served JFK. It was Lufthansa and their LH408, that connected DUS with EWR.
let's say. there's a new full service carrier operating a fleet of 24 second hand A380-800 (ex-Qantas & ex-Thai Airways refurbished airframe) only . . . dedicated to serving international long haul services . . . the A380-800 cabin is configured to accommodate 456 paxs - 463 paxs in a typical 3-class layout . . . will such a strategy work, based on the fact that the airline will be based out of Dubai, UAE . . .
I have never understood the total mismanagement of airports (in) around Berlin. They had one of the best airports for a capital city: Tempelhof. The new airport Brandenburg is just a drag. It is German aka EU mental disorder to mess up projects. With the unification everybody knew that Berlin would be re-developed. But so many infrastructure stayed behind. High speed train, motorways, airports. Too much influence by politicians who get elected by promising boycot of development. And that is not only the achievement of work shy greens !
Just yesterday I saw an aircraft painted in in Airberlin colours with the logo on their tail parked at BER (Although their name wasn’t painted on).. I didn’t catch the registration but I’d love to know if anybody knows anything more about them
