Thanks to the new codeshare agreement, passengers from Sofia can also avail of comfortable long-haul connection flights in the airberlin route network, for example to Chicago, New York and Abu Dhabi.
Starting on 14 January 2015, airberlin and Bulgaria Air, the Bulgarian Republic’s national airline, are offering codeshare flights on selected European routes.
airberlin will put its code on Bulgaria Air flights from Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna to Sofia, introducing non-stop flights for the first time from Austria to the Bulgarian capital. Bulgaria Air is also planning to apply its “FB” airline code to flights in the airberlin route network: in future, domestic flights within Germany from Berlin-Tegel to Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart will have an additional flight number. Starting in mid-January, airberlin’s direct flights from Berlin to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Goteborg and Helsinki will also fly with the Bulgarian airline’s code. Thanks to the new codeshare agreement, passengers from Sofia can also avail of comfortable long-haul connection flights in the airberlin route network, for example to Chicago, New York and Abu Dhabi.
Stephan Nagel, airberlin’s Senior Vice President of Alliances & Cooperation stated: “We are glad to welcome Bulgaria Air as our 20th codeshare partner. Our guests will benefit considerably from the extended flight program and the flight connections on European and long haul routes.“
With the start of the codeshare flights in mid-January, all flights in the airberlin route network to and from Bulgaria will be operated by Bulgaria Air. Passengers that have already booked an airberlin flight on the Berlin – Sofia route will be rebooked on the new codeshare flights.
airberlin iPhone app: over 1 million users – update released
Available now, Germany’s second-largest airline has posted an update to its iPhone app in the Apple Store. Over 1 million users have already installed the airberlin iPhone app on their smartphones. “We are taking our mobile travel companion to another level. Over recent weeks we have analysed the feedback our users provided to improve the app features and navigation, in particular. As things stand, one in four airberlin passengers use our mobile services in the form of our app or the mobile boarding pass,” says Andre Rahn, senior vice president of marketing at airberlin. Each month passengers use the iPhone app over 100,000 times to check in, a number that will almost inevitably increase. Even now, roughly one third of airberlin passengers use the mobile app to complete the check-in procedure.
airberlin iPhone app users can log on to the system and manage their bookings with their topbonus frequent flyer profile. The app lets passengers complete check-in from 30 hours before departure and saves the mobile boarding pass either in the app or in Passbook. Additionally, it provides information on boarding and flight times, also the departure gate number and weather data at the destination.
airberlin is one of the leading airlines in Europe and flies to 171 destinations worldwide each year. The second largest airline in Germany carried more than 31.5 million passengers in 2013. airberlin offers a global route network through its strategic partnership with Etihad Airways, which has a 29.21% share in airberlin, and through membership of the oneworld airline alliance. topbonus, the frequent flyer program of airberlin is one of the leading programs in Europe with more than 3.5 million members. The airline with the award-winning service operates codeshare flights worldwide with 20 airlines. The fleet is among the most modern and eco-efficient in Europe. Together with other airlines, airberlin belongs to Etihad Airways Partners, a new brand with which Etihad has been uniting shared activities since the end of 2014.
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