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Old 18th Aug 2011, 16:28
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You are absolutely right. Air Berlin has seemed to me to be an airline without a clear strategy. It is not a low cost airline like RYR, it is a mixed long and short haul business with the high costs that long haul brings. It has had too much service in a price sensitive market. It does not have a clear culture again like RYR; that is because it is the product of many mergers. Looks to be that a predator could be espying a nice looking target now that a potentially blocking personality is out of the way. In my view IAG is the only company that has the financial capacity to acquire and reorganise Air Berlin. There are no regulatory hurdles either. I, too, think there is a great story emerging here.
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