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airberlin was formed as a US charter company in 1978 by Lelco, an American company in in Portland, Oregon and started operations on 28?Apr/1979 as Air Berlin (USA) with a flight from Berlin-Tegel to Palma de Mallorca. Established as a German carrier on 16/Apr/1991 (following German reunification). In Aug2006, Air Berlin acquired German domestic airline dba (flight operations at dba were continued as a fully owned subsidiary of Air Berlin until 14/Nov/2008, when the dba brand was discontinued due to staff strikes). LTU was bought by AirBerlin 01Apr2007. LTU as airline and AOC existed until 31Mar 2011 when it merged into AirBerlin. Air Berlin filed for insolvency on 15/Aug/2017 and its last flight was on 27Oct2017
< At its peak, it was Germany’s second-largest airline, as well as Europe’s tenth-largest airline in terms of passengers carried >
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