News from a major german newspaper is that there has been a change at the top of the state investment organisation. It has been suggested this may impact negatively on further flows of cash from the middle east, which frankly are all that have kept Air Berlin going.
Easyjet of course were very interested in DBA before it was merged into Air Berlin. The reason ironically that the deal did not happen was at least partly because the DBA pilots did not like Easyjet. I suspect most would now feel differently.