It doesn't carry any DBA slogan at all, as far as I can see. I thought it's necessary by law to put a small "operated by" sticker if the aircraft is operated by a different airline than the livery the aircraft is operated in???
PlaneHunter From Germany, joined Mar 2006, 6191 posts, RR: 79 Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 4894 times:
Thanks for the other link!
Quoting Ndebele (Reply 1): I thought it's necessary by law to put a small "operated by" sticker if the aircraft is operated by a different airline than the livery the aircraft is operated in???
Good question - probably someone can elaborate on that. I only hope they won't use anything similar to the awful "powered by Condor" slogan...
GodBless From Sweden, joined Apr 2000, 2751 posts, RR: 18 Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 4855 times:
Quoting Ndebele (Reply 1): I thought it's necessary by law to put a small "operated by" sticker if the aircraft is operated by a different airline than the livery the aircraft is operated in???
That is new to me. But what is the case then when an airline has no markings at all? The C9 735 comes to mind there...
Lindy Field From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 3072 posts, RR: 15 Reply 4, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 4833 times:
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I was interested to see if there would be a DBA sticker by the nose of the plane like there is on the Air Berlin Fokkers which are operated by Germania. Perhaps these have just not yet been applied yet? And most important, will Air Berlin carry on the DBA tradition of giving passengers a heart-shaped chocolate?
Ushermittwoch From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2888 posts, RR: 18 Reply 11, posted (6 years 6 months ago) and read 4149 times:
I flew on D-ADIB on Monday. Nice on the outside, but the inside looked pretty old. No stickers on the plane though.
What I did find odd though was that they did not say it was an Air Berlin flight powered by dba, which it claimed in Air Berlin's inflight mag. Weird, since it was a sub for a "real" Air Berlin flight with Air Berlin catering.
TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30 Reply 13, posted (6 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4038 times:
Do not forget all these Fokker 100s in Germany come from the same operator, Germania, anyway... They were used for AB, HLX, DBA and so on. When DBA still served THF, they were both flying F100s with Gexx and DBA scheme there.
The one seen above uses the HLX paint scheme, indeed not really a typical DBA scheme, but a beautiful livery indeed.
I think it is better to save money by not repainting every single week.
UK_Dispatcher From United Arab Emirates, joined Dec 2001, 2550 posts, RR: 32 Reply 16, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3753 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 6): Air Berlin seriously needs a logo/cs update. It's so BORING !
They freshened it up a few years ago by replacing the grey with white. I think it is quite a unique colourscheme and rather like it. Much better than what it would probably be if they changed it - white with big 'airberlin.com' titles I bet.
Well it has been leased by HLX as you can see. End of November HLX returned both Fokkers back to the lessor Germania. Germania obviously leased it immediately to dba. So, to answer your question: I don't think it's a short-term lease because HLX won't take them back.
Rumor in a German spotter forum is that AB will acquire 4 Boeing 757 next year:
Only rumors. They seem to aquire two 738 and two 73G (some from Air Astana) according to the forum at www.jet737.de (lot's of insider knowledge but in German only).
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 6): Air Berlin seriously needs a logo/cs update. It's so BORING !
So you only fly an airline b/c of the paint-sheme? When looking at the pax records AB has every month the sheme can't be too bad. But IMO it looks better on the 737 than on the Airbus fleet.
PlaneHunter From Germany, joined Mar 2006, 6191 posts, RR: 79 Reply 24, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 3258 times:
Quoting PADSpot (Reply 23): They are still registered with AB, but I could not find any pictures later than 10/06. Maybe stored before they leave for freighter conversion ... ?
D-ABAH is still active, D-ABAK and D-ABAL are already registered with BlueBird, D-ABAI is parked at BUD and also destined for BlueBird, D-ABAM is parked at HAM and destined for LAT Charter.
Quoting PADSpot (Reply 23): OY-APL is a little strange. I don't know the exact status.
Still active.
PH
Nothing's worse than flying the same reg twice!
25 TriStar500: No B734 is flying for AB any longer, so the "active" status of D-ABAH is only an academic value.
26 PlaneHunter: According to ATDB it is still active. Would be interesting to know whether it has definitely left the fleet or is still kept as backup aircraft. PH
28 TriStar500: According to a source directly at AB, it is no longer flying for the airline.
29 Lindy Field: How many of the new combined Air Berlin are actually leased from Germania? And what exactly is the story with OY-APL? Is it just a short-term lease?
30 PlaneHunter: Which raises the question about (ex-)D-ABAH's current status. PH
31 PADSpot: All of the 19 F100. Maybe it was planned as such, but it now flies for DBA since more than 2.5 years (with minor interruptions) without ever receivin
32 TriStar500: D-ABAH was ferried to BUD for a D-check on November 9.
33 PADSpot: *sigh* I flew on her PAD-SOU on 9th Nov 2003. Exactly three years before she left AB ...
34 Jorge1812: Definately no AB 734 in service anymore (just had my g/f look-up in the Flight system). Did a BUD-BUD flight today. Because it's wearing the Hannover
35 Columba: I have heard that by now. Too bad the 757 would be a nice change and it would have looked pretty good in AB livery. I know this forum and read there
36 Douglasdc10: OY-APL has been flying for DBA for over three years now, so it seems that it is a long-term lease now . It was leased from Maersk together with sister
37 PADSpot: Was is cabin crew? Then i know why: It's the shortest ... short aisles!
38 AMSSFO: Accroding to http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=4 D-AGPP was registered XA-SHL and ferried TXL-KEF on December 13th in basic HLX
39 TriStar500: One should have expected the F-100 to be their favorite -or is that type exclusively crewed by ST staff?
40 DouglasDC10: The Fokkers are wet-leased by ST with full ST crew. Regards DouglasDC10
41 AMSSFO: Very soon, it was ferried TXL-KEF on December 14th as XA-SHK in basic HLX c/s
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