http://www.dw.com/en/airlines-swoop-...lin/a-40111787
Air Berlin is dead.
In parts this is due to mismanagement of a megalomaniac leadership, but in parts also due to the state failure regarding the failed airport Brandenburg BER, which should have entered service already 2012, but already then would have been too small, and which was planned for by Air Berlin to become the new logistic centre of its traffic grid.
Its not the first casualty the failed airport has caused, but its the so far the biggest. The politicians now say optimistically that it will open late 2018. Non-involved external business professionals say not before 2020 - if ever. Growing numbers say indeed that whole thing needs to get levelled and rebuild from scratch.
Germany 2017 - land of perfectionism, high quality engineering and superior administration and organisation. Echoes from the past, not more.