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Eurowings to open Berlin base in 2Q21

Eurowings (EW, Düsseldorf Int'l) is boosting its presence in the German capital with the opening on April 1 of a new base at Berlin Brandenburg Int'l, where it will station three A320-200s, the Lufthansa subsidiary announced.

"Others are leaving, we are staying here," stated Eurowings Chief Executive Officer Jens Bischof in reference to competitors having withdrawn from the German market during the COVID-19 pandemic. easyJet Europe (EC, Vienna) and Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l) have cut frequencies to the German capital as a result of the pandemic, while the demise of Air Berlin (AB, Berlin Tegel) and Germania (ST, Berlin Schönefeld) in 2017 and 2019 respectively left a gap in the market. The Lufthansa Group claimed a market share of more than 30% at the airport when it opened in October 2020. Bischof said Eurowings had flown more than 1,000 departures from Berlin Brandenburg since then, by February 2021 flying every third departure from the airport.

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Germany's SundAir enters Swedish scheduled market

SundAir (SR, Berlin Brandenburg Int'l) has launched scheduled weekly flights between Stockholm Arlanda and Beirut, its first scheduled services that do not connect with its home market, Germany.

According to a press release issued by Swedavia, the operator of the Swedish gateway, flights launched on December 11, 2020, and are operated with an A320-200. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, SundAir has five such aircraft in its fleet alongside two A319-100s. Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows that so far, the leisure specialist has used D-ASMR (msn 2619) on both flights from Stockholm to Beirut.

"We are already very experienced with flights to Beirut, which is a destination we are serving from Berlin Brandenburg Int'l and Düsseldorf Int'l. Stockholm, with its large Lebanese and also Syrian population, was the next logical step for us to expand," Chief Executive Marcos Rossello said.

Besides its services to Lebanon from the two German cities and Stockholm, SundAir currently plies a limited number of flights from various German cities to the Canary...

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