44 cancelled flights on one day: Air Berlin struggles to stay aloft

Air Berlin has been running in the red for years. And now amid massive staff cuts, it's having a hard time ensuring all its flights go through. A report in Welt am Sonntag revealed that Air Berlin is having to cancel or seriously delay flights more and more amid its financial struggles. According to data from EUclaim, Air Berlin has had on average 24 cancelled or seriously delayed flights per day to and from Germany so far this June. Within the first 5 months of the year, there were around 18 cancelled or long-delayed flights per day. EUclaim further found that June 1st alone, there were 47 so-called problem flights - a new record. Of those 47 flights, 44 had been cancelled. Major delays and cancellations over the first weekend in June are estimated to cost the company more than E500,000 in compensation payments. <br/>