Niki (airline)

48.12384916.562423Koordinaten: 48 ° N, 17 ° E

Vienna airport

Niki Luftfahrt, outdoor appearance shortly NIKI, is an Austrian airline based in Vienna and based on the Vienna airport. It is a subsidiary of Air Berlin and is an affiliate member of the oneworld airline alliance.

History

NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH emerged from the Aero Lloyd Austria GmbH, which was acquired a majority stake in November 2003 as a result of the insolvency of the German parent company, Aero Lloyd Niki Lauda and was first performed by the beginning of January 2004 under the provisional name flyniki.

In January 2004 Air Berlin took a 24 % stake in the company, in July 2010, it increased this share to 49.9%. The majority of 50.1 % of the shares held by November 2011, the NL Holding GmbH, which in turn is 100 % owned by the private Lauda foundation. In connection with the increase in the shareholding, Air Berlin was the private Lauda foundation a loan of 40.5 million euros.

The private Lauda foundation had to pay back the right to vote, in three years the loan in cash or through the transfer of the remaining 50.1 percent stake in NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH. As a result, the second option was chosen and acquired the shares of Niki Lauda to Air Berlin. Lauda was on 8 November of 2011 to resign as CEO of NIKI. The brand name is to be retained, Niki Lauda a post on the board of Air Berlin was awarded, there he left, however, from in January 2013.

Since March 20, 2012 NIKI is an affiliate member of the oneworld airline alliance. In May it was announced that the aircraft NIKI from autumn 2012 successively received the painting of the parent company Air Berlin. Since the end of November 2012, the first Airbus A320 in the new paint is in regular service.

For summer 2013, Air Berlin three Embraer 190 NIKI decided to German sister company airline Walter transfer. The winter timetable 2013/2014 but these are re-integrated into the fleet of NIKI.

In fiscal 2012, NIKI recorded a drastic fall in profits of 3.16 million euros in 2011 to just over € 38,000.

Destinations

NIKI operates mainly European cities and holiday destinations around the Mediterranean. Be Flew example, Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Moscow, Nice, Rhodes, Tenerife and Heraklion, Sharm El Sheikh From 2014 Larnaca.

Numerous flights are also offered in codesharing with Air Berlin, S7 Airlines and American Airlines.

Fleet

As of November 2013, the fleet of 23 aircraft NIKI from there with an average age of 4.1 years:

Appearance

In 2003, the company was founded planes were painted solid white and wore a blue and red flyniki lettering on the front fuselage. From the beginning of 2004, the current logo was introduced and painted the aircraft with two red stripes on the white fuselage. In autumn 2005, again a new paint job was introduced, now the aircraft are silver with a stylized bow tie on the front fuselage. Since autumn 2012, the design of the fleet is fitted to the red and white of the parent company, Air Berlin, only the oval logo is retained.

Trivia

• The aircraft of the NIKI are named after dance styles and genres. So, for example, carries one of the Embraer 190 the baptismal name " Bossa Nova ", an Airbus A321 -200 is called " Heavy Metal".