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Air Berlin

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 08: The main terminal building of the still-unopened Berlin Brandenburg International (BER) airport stands on March 8, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Hartmut Mehdorn, former chief executive of Air Berlin and Deutsche Bahn, will take over as head of the management board of the airport, which has been plagued with delays in its opening over the past year and a half. The position has been unoccupied since January, when Rainer Schwarz stepped down from it after it was announced that the new airport's opening would be postponed for a fourth time until at least 2014.

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  • Berlin's troubled airport gets new CEO

    financial crisis struck in 2008 and hasn't revived it.From late 2011 until this January, Mehdorn served as interim CEO of Air Berlin , which has struggled in Europe's highly competitive aviation market. He cut routes and brought in Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways   Read more »

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