Court allows Etihad-Air Berlin code-shares

An appeals court in Germany has allowed Etihad to continue most of its disputed code-share flights with Air Berlin for the winter schedule ending in March. The court ruled that Etihad should be allowed to continue its code-share agreement for 26 international routes but rejected its request to continue code-sharing on five domestic German routes. The court said the international routes could continue as they were in accordance with a bilateral agreement struck between Germany and Abu Dhabi in 2000. Etihad says code-shares were a key reason why it invested in loss-making Air Berlin in 2012. <br/>
Reuters
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