Air Berlin announces healthy increase

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Air Berlin announces healthy increase

02. Mai 2006

Today, Air Berlin announced healthy growth in April 2006, with 24.8 per cent more passengers than in the same period in the previous year. In April 2005, Germany’s second largest airline carried 971,480 passengers, which number increased to 1,212,418 in April 2006. Utilisation of aircraft capacity rose from 74.2 to 83 per cent. Accumulated results for the first four months of 2006 showed an increase in the number of passengers by 12.85 per cent from 3,508,529 to 3,959,477. Capacity utilisation rose from 71.3 to 74.3 per cent, even though the first months of the year are traditionally the least busy for the key market of holidaymakers. The airports of Nuremberg (+ 23.8 %), Düsseldorf (+ 14.3 %) and Berlin-Tegel (+ 11.6 %) achieved particularly high rates of growth. Outside Germany the fastest growing airport was Palma de Mallorca, where the increase in passenger numbers was 16.3 per cent as compared to the same period in the previous year.

Contact for press enquiries:

Claudia Löffler
Air Berlin Press Officer
Tel. + 49 30 3434 1500
Fax +49 30 3434 1509
E-mail: [email protected]