Lufthansa may lease aircraft from Air Berlin

30-Jan-2017 Today the Bundeskartellamt has cleared the wet-lease agreement on 38 passenger aircraft between Lufthansa and Air Berlin. The agreement was proactively notified by the parties according to German merger control rules. With the wet-lease agreement Air Berlin will lease 38 aircraft of the types Airbus A319 and A320, including cockpit and cabin crews, to Lufthansa and its subsidiaries Eurowings and Austrian Airlines. The aircraft are stationed at German and Austrian airports. The agreement has a term of six years; the term can be extended subject to certain conditions. As is common in wet-lease agreements, the responsibility for, inter alia, flight operation, crew planning and maintenance remains with the wet-lease provider, in this case Air Berlin.