Air Berlin (1991) (Berlin Tegel) has received an major investment from Etihad Airways (EY/Abu Dhabi Intl) which is planning to increase its stake in Air Berlin from 2.99% to 29.21% and will enter into a an extensive cooperation agreement with Air Berlin that includes codeshare services from Germany and Switzerland to Abu Dhabi Intl and beyond. Air Berlin is introducing some new routes: Berlin Tegel-Abu Dhabi Intl: 4x weekly A330-200 service starting on January 15 (replacing route to Dubai) Berlin Tegel-Gdansk: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service resuming on May 1 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (HE/Dortmund)) Berlin Tegel-Los Angeles: 3x weekly A330-200 service starting on May 11 Cologne/Bonn-Heringsdorf: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service starting on May 5 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter) Dusseldorf Intl-Las Vegas McCarran: 2x weekly A330-200 service starting on May 10 Frankfurt Intl-Heringsdorf: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service starting on May 26 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter) Frankfurt Intl-Jersey-Guernsey-Frankfurt Intl: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 between April 28 and September 22 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter) Friedrichshafen-Ibiza: weekly seasonal B737-700 service starting on May 12 Hanover-Arvidsjaur: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service has resumed on November 28 Leipzig/Halle-Split: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 5 and October 6 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter) Zurich-Kerkyra-Araxos-Zurich: weekly seasonal A302-200 service between July 10 and September 18 (operated by Belair Airlines (4T/Zurich), adding Araxos as a new destination) Air Berlin has announced a major restructuring program that includes the cancellation of a wide range of routes and a cut of its total number of aircraft from 170 to 152. It has already terminated its routes from Amsterdam to Palma de Mallorca, from Berlin Tegel to Jerez de la Frontera and Klagenfurt, from Cologne/Bonn to Casablanca, Nador, Tangiers, Tunis and Valencia, from Dusseldorf Intl to Bilbao, Klagenfurt and Pristina, from Erfurt to Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Nuremberg, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur and Thessaloniki, from Frankfurt Intl to Naples, from Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel to Frankfurt Intl, Klagenfurt, Naples and Pristina, from Hanover to London Gatwick and Zurich, from Munich to Cairo, from Münster/Osnabrück to Catania, Faro, Lanzarote, London Stansted, Malaga, Olbia, Rijeka, Vienna and Westerland, from Paderborn to London Stansted and Rhodes and from Palma de Mallorca to Murcia by the end of October. Air Berlin will terminate its weekly Dusseldorf Intl-Dubai route by March 8 as a result of its new partnership with Etihad. It has also temporarily suspended its routes from Basle/Mulhouse to Palma de Mallorca, from Berlin Tegel to Naples, from Cologne/Bonn to Naples and Palermo, from Erfurt to Palma de Mallorca, from Frankfurt Intl to Alicante, from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to Palma de Mallorca, from Munich to Alicante, from Nuremberg to Malta and from Zurich to Alicante and Malaga for the winter season. Air Berlin and its minority shareholder Pegasus Airlines (PC/Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen) have entered into a bilateral codeshare agreement for services between Germany and Turkey and some domestic flights in Turkey. It has also entered into additional codeshare agreements with more oneworld partners by adding new partnerships with Malev (MA/Budapest) and Royal Jordanian (RJ/Amman Queen Alia).