Air Berlin and Niki announce new restructured network

Air Berlin (1991) (Berlin Tegel) and Niki (Austria) (Vienna) have jointly announced the final details of their summer schedule networks as part of the restructuring exercise to transfer leisure focused routes from Air Berlin to Niki.

Air Berlin will focus on intercontinental services as well as more business oriented routes within Europe and in the German domestic market while Niki will assume various leisure oriented routes as it becomes part of Blue Sky, a new European leisure carrier group to be controlled by tour operator TUI, Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi International) and Niki Privatstiftung (foundation).

Based on the announcement and ch-aviation analysis of Air Berlin, Belair Airlines (Zurich) and Niki schedule data, Air Berlin will fully pull out of Friedrichshafen and Linz Blue Danube as part of the restructuring. Previously also removed services from Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH, Münster/Osnabrück and Paderborn/Lippstadt have now been added to Air Berlin's summer schedule again.

In addition to the Austrian summer schedule already announced, Niki will take over leisure routes from Germany and Switzerland operating from:

• Berlin Tegel to: Malaga, Kerkyra, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Irakleion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes International, Tenerife Sur
• Cologne/Bonn to: Malaga, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Malta International, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife Sur
• Düsseldorf to: Lanzarote, Malaga, Alicante, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Irakleion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Gran Canaria, Ponta Delgada, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes International, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tenerife Sur
• Frankfurt International to: Palma de Mallorca
• Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Malaga, Faro, Fuerteventura, Irakleion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife Sur
• Hannover to: Palma de Mallorca
• Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to: Palma de Mallorca
• Leipzig/Halle to: Palma de Mallorca
• Memmingen to: Calvi
• Munich to: Malaga, Faro, Funchal, Ibiza, Reykjavik Keflavik, Kos Hippocrates, Gran Canaria, Malta International, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes International, Tenerife Sur
• Nuremberg to: Kerkyra, Irakleion, Kos Hippocrates, Malta International, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes International
• Saarbrücken to: Palma de Mallorca
• Stuttgart Manfred Rommel to: Malaga, Ibiza, Malta International, Palma de Mallorca
• Zurich to: Lanzarote, Brindisi, Kerkyra, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Irakleion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Larnaca, Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Rhodes International, Skopje, Samos, Lamezia Terme, Tenerife Sur, Zakinthos

The following routes will be dropped altogether as part of the plan:

• Berlin Tegel to: Lanzarote, Alicante, Billund, Bari, Madrid Barajas, Menorca Mahón, Bucharest Henri Coanda, Sofia, Jerez de la Frontera
• Cologne/Bonn to: Olbia
• Dresden to: Palma de Mallorca
• Düsseldorf to: Abu Dhabi International, Kerkyra, Menorca Mahón
• Friedrichshafen to: Palma de Mallorca
• Frankfurt International to: Catania, Ibiza
• Hannover to: Stuttgart Manfred Rommel, Vienna
• Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Nuremberg, Vienna
• Leipzig/Halle to: Kerkyra, Irakleion, Kos Hippocrates
• Linz Blue Danube to: Palma de Mallorca
• Munich to: Lanzarote, Alicante, Brindisi, Cagliari, Menorca Mahón, Naples Capodichino, Thessaloniki, Lamezia Terme, Zakinthos
• Nuremberg to: Faro, Ibiza, Olbia, Thessaloniki
• Stuttgart Manfred Rommel to: Alicante, Catania, Thessaloniki
• Salzburg to: Kos Hippocrates, Olbia
• Vienna to: Alicante, Stockholm Arlanda, Abu Dhabi International, Barcelona El Prat, Paris CDG, Kefallinia, Rome Fiumicino, Florence Peretola, Funchal, Mykonos, Skiathos, Kavala International, Milan Linate, Madrid Barajas, Mytilene, Nice, Paphos, Samos, Valencia Manises, Volos, Zurich
• Zurich to: Alicante, Catania, Naples Capodichino