In July 2010, Air Berlin, Germany's second-largest airline company, welcomed 3,700,971 passengers on board, i.e. an increase of 6.4 percent (July 2009: 3,479,401 passengers, including those traveling on the acquired NIKI and TUIfly routes). Fleet capacity utilization decreased by 2.1 percentage points, i.e. from 83.3 to 81.2 percent.

For the period from January to July 2010, a total of 17,928,956 passengers traveled on Air Berlin's flight route network (including the acquired NIKI and TUIfly routes), i.e. slightly more (+0.6 percent) than in the corresponding period of the previous year (2009: 17,817,353 passengers). Fleet capacity utilization for the first seven months of the year decreased by 2.1 percentage points to 74.2 percent (2009: 76.3 percent). Accumulated capacity for the January to July 2010 period increased by 3.5 percent.