Originally Posted by
skipness1E
Not quite, when Lufthansa was allowed to enter the previously closed shop Berlin market, BA were forced to leave as this predates the EU Open Skies agreement. Rather than abandon the market they bought a small West German outfit called Delta Air and over time this morphed into Deutsche BA flying B737s out of Tegel. BA inter German flying had to cease and the aircraft were redeployed in the UK, the displaced ATPs replacing the last of the HS748s to the Highlands and Islands for example.
So confused about what you’re referring to. Presumably you mean BA weren’t allowed to fly fifth freedom flights within Germany as a non-German company so they bought a German company and rebranded it as a franchise.
In the previous post you note that aircraft based as BHX and MAN were used to do internal flights within Germany but then you say that was different from the Delta Air outfit that they bought and later rebranded as Deutsche BA…
How does Berlin fit in? Did these developments happen before or after the fall of the Berlin Wall?