Opodo

The name "opodo" is an ambigram, with rotational symmetry. The dba fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2006):. Opodo also runs other successful online travel businesses such as Travellink in the Nordic region (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finaland) - see http://www.travellink.no, http://www.travellink.se, http://www.travellink.dk, http://www.travellink.fi, and in France Karavel at http://www.karavel.fr and http://www.promovacances.fr and http://www.vivacances.fr as well as a tour operator offering tailor-made deals to Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, South Africa, America, and the Far East from the UK at http://www.questtravel.co.uk. The airline is owned by Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft (80%) and Martin Gauss and Peter Wojahn (20%), and has 660 employees (at January 2005). For United Kingdom customers see http://www.opodo.co.uk, for German customers see http://www.opodo.de, for French customers see http://www.opodo.fr, for Italian customers see http://www.opodo.it Spanish customers should visit: http://www.opodo.es. 3 million passengers flew on dba aircraft in the year ending March 2005. Opodo operates out of nine European countries. In the fiscal year ending 31st March 2005, dba announced its first profit since creation in 1992, of 'between €1m and €2m [1]' on sales of around €265m.

Opodo offers a full worldwide range of travel products including flights (from more than 500 scheduled and low cost airlines), package holidays, dynamic packaging, city-breaks, hotels, car rental, event tickets, excursions, ski holidays, cottages, holiday rentals, and cruises. dba submitted a binding bid for ailing Greek national airline Olympic Airlines in April 2005, the result of which should be known early summer 2005. The travel technology provider Amadeus is a majority shareholder. The gexx brand is in the process of being phased out on the former airline's services and Fokker F100 aircraft, which dba has assumed the lease of. It is a pan-European enterprise, owned by a consortium of European airlines, including British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Austrian Airlines and Finnair. In March 2005, dba announced its intention to acquire rival airline Germania Express (gexx), which would create Germany's third largest airline after Lufthansa and Air Berlin. Opodo is like Orbitz an Internet travel agency. It was rebranded as dba.

In return BA would receive 25% of any profits or proceeds from a sale until June 2006. In addition BA would invest £25m into the airline and guarantee its fleet of 16 Boeing 737s for a year. In June 2003 BA announced plans to sell Deutsche BA to Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft for a token sum of 1 Euro. In March 2003 easyJet announced it had abandoned its plans to acquire Deutsche BA, citing the economic climate and employment laws in Germany.

However, easyJet had several commitments: send three managers to the German operation, contribute £3m for capital expenditure and pay BA £366,000 per month until it exercised its option. During this time Deutsche BA would remain fully under BA control. easyJet had until March 31 2003, or with an extension until July 3 2003, to purchase the airline. easyjet followed with an announcement on May 8, 2002 that it had signed an exclusive agreement with British Airways giving it the option to purchase Deutsche BA.

On May 3, 2002 easyJet announced that it intended to pursue a purchase of former BA subsidiary Go. First indications of a BA review of its German arm came in 2001 at which time Deutsche BA had amassed losses of over £15m. Rod Eddington replaced Bob Ayling as British Airways Chief Executive in May 2000, starting major reviews of the airline's operations. In April 1997, after liberalisation of the European air traffic market, BA acquired the remaining shares.

It was founded when British Airways (BA) acquired a 49% stake in Delta Air, a regional airline based at Friedrichshafen, and renamed it Deutsche BA. The airline was established in March 1992 and started operations in June 1992. . Its main base is Munich International Airport.

It operates scheduled domestic and international services and also operates charter flights for tour operators to Europe and North Africa. dba (dba Lufttahrtgesellschaft mbH) is a low-cost airline based in Munich, Germany. 12 Fokker 100. 0 Boeing 737-700/800 (40 on order).

1 Boeing 737-500. 13 Boeing 737-300. Stockholm (Arlanda International Airport). Sweden