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Keeping current fleet of 45 737's. Cancelled 18 737 and 15 787 orders.


Airberlin | World Airline News

Airberlin (airberlin.com) (Berlin) has cancelled its Boeing order for 18 737s and 15 787 Dreamliners. The airline issued this statement:

Airberlin has reached an agreement with Boeing that it’s orders for 18 Boeing 737 and 15 Boeing 787 aircraft at a price of currently $5 billion to be rescinded. The termination agreement for these 33 aircraft does not include any compensation to Boeing from Airberlin Group, and represents a further important step in the gradual harmonization of the airline’s narrow-body fleet.

Ulf Hüttmeyer, Chief Financial Officer at Airberlin, said: “Not taking on the 33 aircraft ordered will significantly reduce future capital expenditure for Airberlin and improve our balance sheet”.

“Our collaboration with Boeing has always been excellent, and this will remain so. 45 Boeing 737 NG aircraft will remain in service on European short and medium-haul routes. In order to operate more flexibly in the future and further reduce costs, standardization of our fleet is a key element of our restructuring”, Ulf Hüttmeyer continues.

The transition to a uniform narrow-body fleet should be completed by the end of 2016.

Airberlin Group will continue to dynamically adapt the existing fleet to its needs by purchasing or leasing suitable aircraft, although this will be on a smaller scale than originally planned. Already, Airberlin is well positioned, with one of the youngest fleets in Europe.

Copyright Photo: James Helbock/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-86J D-ABMS (msn 37782) approaches the runway at Paine Field in Everett.

Intel33

I just received a TBNT email from the April app window. I don't think anyone had any question that interviews and hiring were over for a while, but this confirms it.

On the up side, the TBNT emails this spring were closely followed by another app window. Indications seem to be the window won't be open again for a while, but most were surprised by the number that have been hired in the last year. Time will tell.

Soundersfan

Got the TBNT this morning too. Hope it is followed soon by a better email....

socalflyboy

Unless Ual grabs them...

KPer

Got one today as well.

Burton78

Haven't heard much at the training center as far as a new hire window opening, other than to expect anywhere from 300-500 new hires next year (all hearsay of course). It wouldn't surprise me to see an application window opening before the end of the year though. All the TBNTs sounds like they may be purging the system for just that.

BMD94

Anybody heard a percentage of applicants that had the 73 type last time around? Just wondering if that's still going to be a discriminator.

BAT 21

I received one also. Missed the last window by days. Coworker is already flying the line.

Rsv4lyfe

Have competitive mins dropped over the last couple rounds of hiring? Were any guys from 121 RJ world coming in with right at 1000tpic?

e6bpilot

The three commuter people in my class had way more than 1000 PIC. Two were with republic/Chataqua for about 10 years, the other at Eagle for about the same amount of time.