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 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, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur
- Cologne/Bonn to: Malaga, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Las Palmas, Malta Int'l, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife Sur
- Düsseldorf to: Lanzarote, Malaga, Alicante, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Las Palmas, Ponta Delgada, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tenerife Sur
- Frankfurt Int'l to: Palma de Mallorca
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Malaga, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife Sur
- Hanover 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, Las Palmas, Malta Int'l, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur
- Nuremberg to: Kerkyra, Heraklion, Kos Hippocrates, Malta Int'l, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
- Saarbrücken to: Palma de Mallorca
- Stuttgart Manfred Rommel to: Malaga, Ibiza, Malta Int'l, Palma de Mallorca
- Zurich to: Lanzarote, Brindisi, Kerkyra, Faro, Funchal, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos Hippocrates, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, 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 de Mallorca
- Düsseldorf to: Abu Dhabi Int'l, Kerkyra, Menorca
- Friedrichshafen to: Palma de Mallorca
- Frankfurt Int'l to: Catania, Ibiza
- Hanover to: Stuttgart Manfred Rommel, Vienna
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt to: Nuremberg, Vienna
- Leipzig/Halle to: Kerkyra, Heraklion, Kos Hippocrates
- Linz to: Palma de Mallorca
- Munich to: Lanzarote, Alicante, Brindisi, Cagliari, Menorca, 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 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 Capodichino
