Air Berlin

Air Berlin is based in Berlin in Germany and is rated as the Europe's third largest low cost airline. The airline operates scheduled flights to a number of destinations in Europe and also has the pride of carrying over 12 million passengers in the year 2004. Since only flights from the allied nations were allowed to land in Berlin until 1990, the Air Berlin Inc. was started by a former captain of Pan Am. The Boeing 707 was the first flight to fly in the year 1979. When Germany was reunified in the year 1990, the airline was re registered under the new German law and was named Air Berlin and started operating flights to the popular destinations of Europe like London, Zurich, Vienna and Barcelona.

In 2004, Air Berlin held talks with Niki, an private airline company in Austria and are now firm alliances and jointly purchased about 110 Airbus A320s. Air Berlin offers comfortable travel to passengers with the facilities like drinks, meals, newspapers and also assigned seating arrangements. Air Berlin owns about 60 aircrafts that consists of Airbus A319-100, Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-400, Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-800 and also Fokker F100. The airline has also placed orders for 49 numbers of Airbus A320-200. As on July, 2006 Air Berlin is about 5 and eight months years old.