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Bombardier Appoints Stuart Bailey as General Manager of its Newly Acquired Berlin Service Centre

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Feb 15^th 2021 |

Newly integrated facility further expands Bombardier’s worldwide customer support footprint and grows company&r...

Bombardier has taken full ownership of its Berlin service center

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jan 14^th 2021 |

Bombardier is fully gaining a foothold in the maintenance of its business jets at the heart of the EU. The Canadian aircraft manufacturer has just finalized the acquis...

Bombardier Announces Completion of Previously Announced Acquisition and Gains Full Ownership of Aircraft Service Centre in Berlin

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Jan 8^th 2021 |

Bombardier announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares ...

Take a bow, Tegel: Five things about stalwart Berlin airport

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Nov 5^th 2020 |

Drab and outdated but beloved for its convenience and quirky hexagonal design, Berlin's Tegel airport will finally close for good on Sunday after more than 60 years.T...

Aviation chiefs in quarantine after virus case at Berlin airport

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Nov 4^th 2020 |

Aviation bosses who celebrated the long-delayed opening of Berlin's new international airport together have been forced into quarantine after a local official tested ...

Berlin's much delayed new airport welcomes first flights

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Nov 2^nd 2020 |

Berlin's new international airport officially opened on Saturday nine years late, massively over-budget and in the middle of a virus-induced air transport crisis.Two ...

Berlin announces temporary part-nationalisation for Lufthansa

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, May 25^th 2020 |

Berlin will climb aboard airline giant Lufthansa as its largest shareholder in a nine-billion-euro ($9.8 billion) rescue if investors and competition authorities agree...

Airbus and Dassault to team up on combat fighter

DEFENCE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Apr 25^th 2018 |

Airbus and Dassault Aviation announced Wednesday they intend to team up on the development of a French-German combat fighter, a project Paris and Berlin unveiled last year.The two firms "have decided to join forces f...

Airbus presents latest innovations at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Apr 23^rd 2018 |

Airbus will present its extensive product portfolio and a number of innovations at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show from 25 to 29 April, and will once again be the largest...

Lufthansa wins EU nod for Air Berlin spoils

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Dec 21^st 2017 |

German carrier Lufthansa clinched EU approval Thursday for its scaled back bid to snap up assets of bankrupt Air Berlin, a European Union statement said.Responding to signals that the EU would veto its initial plans,...

Lufthansa offers fresh concessions in Air Berlin bid

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Dec 1^st 2017 |

German aviation giant Lufthansa has offered concessions to encourage the European Commission to green-light its planned purchase of parts of bankrupt Air Berlin, the ...

EasyJet to buy slice of Air Berlin's Tegel operations

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, Oct 28^th 2017 |

British low-cost carrier easyJet announced Saturday it had agreed to buy part of bankrupt carrier Air Berlin's operations at the German capital's Tegel Airport for 40...

Lufthansa Q3 profits down, confirms 2017 destination

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Oct 25^th 2017 |

German airline group Lufthansa confirmed its objectives for the full year Wednesday, even as its third-quarter profit fell. Between July and September -- the key summ...

Lufthansa to swallow lion's share of Air Berlin

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Oct 12^th 2017 |

Years of struggle for Germany's second-ranked airline Air Berlin appeared on their final stretch Thursday, as airborne behemoth Lufthansa announced plans to buy more than half the bankrupt carrier's planes.The deal h...

Air Berlin to ground all flights by end of October

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Oct 10^th 2017 |

Bankrupt German airline Air Berlin must ground all flights by the end of October, the firm said Monday, as talks continue with prospective buyers Lufthansa and Easyje...