Air Berlin goes belly-up

[rcjordan]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/air-berlin-files-for-insolvency-after-etihad-withdraws-support

Sterling gone. Air Berlin gone.  I guess $14 tickets don't pay the bills.

[Rumbas]

Auch. We still have:

Easyjet
Norwegian
Ryaniar

..for a while.

[BoL]

Just bought a Glasgow to Toronto ticket for 3 weeks time, 80 quid. The remaining 160 was in fuel surchages and tax. Their software for pricing and filling up seats would be interesting to figure out.

[rcjordan]

The last years I was hopping around EU, GermanWings got to be my favorite.  I see they've rebranded.

https://www.eurowings.com/

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Hah! Just learned that eurowings is Lufthansa in disguise

Lufthansa has already leased crewed planes from Air Berlin to provide flights by its Eurowings budget airline

[rcjordan]

Alitalia ^{(I try to avoid anything with 'italia' in its name. Seriously.)} went bankrupt in May 2017

http://www.businessinsider.com/etihad-airline-trouble-airberlin-bankrupt-2017-8

[rcjordan]

>Auch. We still have:

>Easyjet
>Norwegian
>Ryaniar

>..for a while.

FTFY:
Auch. We still have:

Easyjet
Norwegian
Ryaniar

..for a while.

[CaboWabo]

Another one bites the dust...there was a great segment on John Oliver last weekend on the mergers and force-outs that is growing the profitability of the big corps. Soon we will have to pay to use the loo.

[rcjordan]

EU approves Lufthansa's partial takeover of Air Berlin

http://www.dw.com/en/eu-approves-lufthansas-partial-takeover-of-air-berlin/a-41891572

[rcjordan]

India's Jet Airways is shutting down after running out of money - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jet-airways-shuts-down-after-running-out-of-money-2019-4