airberlin records higher capacity utilization

06-Sep-2012 airberlin increased its capacity utilization for the first eight months of the year to 79.25 percent, i.e. an increase of 1.2 percent over the previous year. In yearly comparison, Germany's second-largest airline company reduced capacity by 6.8 percent in the context of the efficiency-increasing programme "Shape & Size", to 28,660,809 seats. Over the January to August period, airberlin transported 22,713,192 passengers, i.e. only 5.3 percent less than in the corresponding period of 2011, thus increasing the capacity utilization of its flights.