One year after the last flight of Air Berlin aircraft of the bankrupt company are still on the move. You are working for the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings. "A few machines still have to wait for their Eurowings livery," said a Eurowings spokeswoman. "That's because we did not want to take the machines out of the program in the summer timetable."
In addition, it had been difficult to get appointments for the repainting. Gradually, the last of a total of 77 former Air Berlin aircraft taken over are to be injected. "The paint is expected to be completed by the end of March next year," said the spokeswoman.
Air Berlin filed for bankruptcy on August 15, 2017. On October 27, she stopped her flight operations. The last flight brought passengers from Munich to Berlin.
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Air Berlin also still on the stock exchange
The company Air Berlin still exists. There are currently still 58 of the former 8000 employees working for the company in Berlin, said the spokesman for the insolvency administrator Lucas Flöther, Christoph Möller. "They support the insolvency administrator in the settlement of the company."
It is all about checking the numerous claims of creditors. There are more than 1.3 million creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings, most of them Air Berlin customers whose flights were canceled in the final phase following the bankruptcy petition.
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Air Berlin is still listed on the stock exchange. Most recently, the share price fluctuated between one and two cents per share. Although Möllers is planning to withdraw from the stock market, there is "no timetable" for this. Shareholders are shareholders, and their claims would be considered in the insolvency subordinate, said the spokesman.
The sale of the brand name "Air Berlin" should also be at the very end of the bankruptcy process. Until further notice, the name is mainly used for a website as a contact point for the creditors.