Air Berlin (AB, Berlin Tegel) and Niki (HG, 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 Int'l) and Niki Privatstiftung (foundation).
Based on the announcement and ch-aviation analysis of Air Berlin, Belair Airlines (4T, Zurich) and Niki schedule data, Air Berlin will fully pull out of Friedrichshafen and Linz as part of the restructuring. Previously also removed services from Basle/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, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Las Palmas, Palma Son Sant Joan, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur
- Cologne/Bonn to: Malaga, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Las Palmas, Malta Int'l, Palma Son Sant Joan, Tenerife Sur
- Düsseldorf Int'l to: Lanzarote, Malaga, Alicante, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Las Palmas, Ponta Delgada, Palma Son Sant Joan, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tenerife Sur
- Frankfurt Int'l to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Malaga, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Palma Son Sant Joan, Tenerife Sur
- Hanover to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Leipzig/Halle to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Memmingen to: Calvi
- Munich to: Malaga, Faro, Funchal, Ibiza, Reykjavik Keflavik, Kos Hippocrates, Las Palmas, Malta Int'l, Palma Son Sant Joan, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur
- Nuremberg to: Kerkyra, Heraklion, Kos Hippocrates, Malta Int'l, Palma Son Sant Joan, Rhodes
- Saarbrücken to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Stuttgart Echterdingen to: Malaga, Ibiza, Malta Int'l, Palma Son Sant Joan
- Zurich to: Lanzarote, Brindisi, Kerkyra, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Palma Son Sant Joan, Pristina, Rhodes, 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, Bucharest Otopeni, Sofia, Jerez de la Frontera
- Cologne/Bonn to: Olbia
- Dresden to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Düsseldorf Int'l to: Abu Dhabi Int'l, Kerkyra, Menorca
- Friedrichshafen to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Frankfurt Int'l to: Catania, Ibiza
- Hanover to: Stuttgart Echterdingen, Vienna
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Nuremberg, Vienna
- Leipzig/Halle to: Kerkyra, Heraklion, Kos Hippocrates
- Linz to: Palma Son Sant Joan
- Munich to: Lanzarote, Alicante, Brindisi, Cagliari, Menorca, Naples Int'l, Thessaloniki, Lamezia Terme, Zakinthos
- Nuremberg to: Faro, Ibiza, Olbia, Thessaloniki
- Stuttgart Echterdingen to: Alicante, Catania, Thessaloniki
- Salzburg to: Kos Hippocrates, Olbia
- Vienna to: Alicante, Stockholm Arlanda, Abu Dhabi Int'l, Barcelona El Prat, Paris CDG, Kefallinia, Rome Fiumicino, Florence Peretola, Funchal, Mykonos, Skiathos, Kavala, Milan Linate, Madrid Barajas, Mytilene, Nice, Paphos, Samos, Valencia Manises, Volos, Zurich
- Zurich to: Alicante, Catania, Naples Int'l
