February 2007 has been another good month for Air Berlin and its wholly owned subsidiary, dba as there was a two-figure growth - 12.3 per cent - in the number of passengers carried, from 1,160,308 to 1,302,643. In the months of January and February 2007 the airlines welcomed 2,509,172 passengers on board. This corresponds to an increase of 10.5 per cent on the 2,271,727 passengers carried in the same period of the previous year.

The combined fleet capacity utilisation rate rose by 1.9 percentage points from 66.7 per cent in February 2006 to 68.6 per cent in February 2007. The cumulative increase in capacity utilisation over the first two months of the year was 2 percentage points to 66.8 per cent (01+02/2006: 64.8 per cent).

In February 2007 the following airports reported exceptional growth: Dresden (+ 95 per cent), Bremen (+ 51 per cent), Frankfurt (+ 37 per cent), Leipzig (+ 25 per cent), Berlin-Tegel (+ 24 per cent) and Hamburg (+ 17 per cent). The airports outside Germany experiencing strong growth are headed by Helsinki (+ 66 per cent), Moscow (+ 52 per cent), Madrid (+ 43 per cent) and Zurich (+ 31 per cent).