Former F1 driver Niki Lauda says might bid for Air Berlin´s Niki

Former F1 driver Niki Lauda is interested in buying back insolvent Air Berlin’s Niki, the Austrian airline he once owned, joining a slew of companies and investors vying to grab parts of the German carrier. Lauda expressed his interest in Niki in a letter to Air Berlin’s insolvency administrator but he has yet to look into Niki’s books, he told Austrian newspaper Kronen-Zeitung. “Now let’s see what happens, whether I’ll be invited to the negotiations at all,” he was quoted as saying. Lufthansa, Thomas Cook’s Condor, easyJet and Ryanair are among airlines interested in the carrier’s business or parts of it, sources familiar with the negotiations have said. German aviation investor Hans Rudolf Woehrl is also working on a bid.<br/>