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Berlin (euro adhoc) - In the context of its efficiency-increasing program "Shape & Size" and for the first time since the publication of its traffic figures, airberlin, Germany's second-largest airline, has succeeded in increasing the capacity utilization rate for January to approximately 75 percent, i.e. 2.6 percentage points more than in the corresponding month of the previous year (01/2011: 72.35 percent). In monthly comparison, the company had reduced capacity by 14.4 percent in a targeted manner, whereas the number of passengers transported only decreased by 11.3 percent, namely from 2,145,188 passengers in January 2011 to 1,901,779 passengers in January 2012.

 January 2012
Capacity                          2,536,965

Number of passengers 1,901,779 Capacity utilization rate in % 74.96

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 company:     Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG
             The Hour House, High Street 32
             UK-WD3 1ER Rickmansworth, Herts
phone:       +49 (0)30 3434 1500
FAX:         +49 (0)30/3434-1509
mail:        abpresse@airberlin.com
WWW:         http://www.airberlin.com
sector:      Air Transport
ISIN:        GB00B128C026
indexes:     SDAX, Classic All Share, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
             regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt 
language:    English

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