"try to use German Airlines but AB is a shame"
K Weber (Germany)
✅ Verified Review | Flew Berlin to Munich. Delays and problems with handling luggage is not addressed here since this might be an issue of the airports. Nevertheless it is unbelievable what Air Berlin delivers to its customers. 1) The system delivers a seat which cannot be changed - if you are about 6'3" it's a real pleasure to have a middle seat. 2) Air Berlin might have economic problems but that does not mean they must give cheapen their "customer-relationship". I am German and so try to use German Airlines but AB is a shame.
Aircraft | A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Berlin to Munich |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"these guys are a joke"
T Stanaloski (Australia)
✅ Verified Review | Berlin Tegel to Prague. Never ever will I fly with Air Berlin again, everything seemed nice and smooth from the check in to checking in our baggage but once we landed and we went to collect our checked in baggage we where hit with a shock! Half the flight was missing their baggage (mind you this aircraft had only 70 people on board) ground crew in the Prague told us they always do this and were not surprised. They believe that the bags were still in Berlin and sometimes take weeks to arrive. Now I understand these things happen so I left it and waited no one ever gets in touch with you, I tried emailing ofcourse there was no response. Tried calling the numbers on the website of course they didn't exist. You are better off catching trains around Europe or find proper a airline because these guys are a joke!
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Berlin Tegel to Prague |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"all very confusing"
David Vieira (Poland)
✅ Verified Review | Vienna to Krakow via Berlin Tegel. One week. 4 Air Berlin flights, 3 delayed and to close the story a lost luggage for 26 hours. You book Air Berlin, but you fly Alitalia, where they speak Italian in a route between Vienna and Berlin. Or worse you fly with Air One, which supposedly ceased operations in 2014. It's all very confusing. The phones lines both Air Berlin and Berlin Tegel airport are not available all day. Nobody is answering your emails and you don't receive information where or when your luggage will be delivered. Bad, bad, bad.
Aircraft | A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Vienna to Krakow via Berlin Tegel |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"worst airline experience"
P Karikc (Slovakia)
✅ Verified Review | Budapest to Reykjavik via Berlin. Probably the worst airline experience. The worst customer service, nobody able to help you anyhow on their hotline and when you write them through their web form, they don't respond. Lost all 4 of our check-in baggage, which arrived 4 days after us. I called/wrote them several times asking how should we handle the lost baggage, I've got a serious reply the 11th day of our 12 day holiday. Except that we flew our first flight with some old Italian plane and crew (should have been Air Berlin), leg space was really small, 3h 30 min flight without anything to drink.
Aircraft | A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Budapest to Reykjavik via Berlin |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"will never fly them again"
B Stanton (Canada)
✅ Verified Review | Copenhagen to Berlin. Terrible customer experience I have had delayed luggage before and realize it is a risk of flying. My partner and I both had our bags not show up on a direct flight from Copenhagen to Berlin (1 hour flight) and it took 3 and 4 days respectively to get our bags. The issue was not the delayed bags but the complete lack of proper communication which could have addressed our concerns and stress. On our flight, at least a dozen people had same issue. No representative present, no informative communication. Automated messages saying no updates were not effective. No number to reach a person. I called numerous times the number I located and emailed and no answer ever at number and email was simply automated with no information. When I finally received an update that my luggage had arrived in Berlin, I asked to confirm where to pick up to ensure they did not deliver to hotel I was leaving at, and never any reply over several hours. I showed up at Berlin baggage service centre on way out of city and they could not locate. I went to the air Berlin business class counter and the woman staffing refused to help and had zero empathy and was rude. I asked for her manager who had same lack of empathy. I asked to speak to her manager and he was finally the first person who tried to help and brought a luggage person who tried as well. But by this point I had lost my patience with air Berlin. They could not locate my luggage. Finally an hour before I left the city - four days after arriving - my luggage was located at the baggage service centre. I still have not received any apology for air Berlin nor any information on delayed flight compensation process and forms. After reading these reviews it is clear it is an airline issue much larger than my own experiences. All air Berlin had to do was provide simply updates each day with facts: "your luggage has not left Berlin, we are trying to get it to you by ddmmyy." And I would have been fine however the lack of any human being reachable and the lack of empathy by their business class check in counter and her manager mean I will never fly them again.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Copenhagen to Berlin |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"outraged by Air Berlin"
Simone Caprifogli (United States)
✅ Verified Review | New York to Bologna via Dusseldorf, July 3rd 2017. The departure time at JFK was 9:40pm (Flight No. 7481). I was at the check-in point with plenty of time (7:00pm.) The flight attendant told me "there is a 3-hour delay because a baby got sick on the plane and they had to land." She told me not to worry my connecting flight layover was 3.5 hours so I would have made it and they would have made up some time during the flight. At the gate I was told they had to change my connecting flight to Bologna to a later flight at 8:30pm instead of 2:55pm (a serious problem for me), but they told me that they only did that as a precaution in case I cannot make it to the original flight (at 2:55pm) which is what I had booked. The attendant at the gate told me that once in Dusseldorf I would have been able to take the Flight 8686 at 2:55pm. We boarded at 12:45am with more than 3 hours delay. We finally took off and on board I asked what I should do once in Dusseldorf. They said as soon as outside the aircraft look for the information point with Air Berlin attendants and they would have told me where to go to get to the original flight 8686. The flight attendant sent me to Gate B56 and warned me to "hurry" because the flight was departing in less than an hour. I ran to Gate B56 only to find no one there. I went to another attendant who told me that Flight AB 8686 was at Gate 44 two floors down. I ran again with a heavy backpack and a carry-on. I had to stop to catch my breath and I felt dizzy. Two police officers saw me and asked me if I was OK. I had to explain what happened to them because they were concern about my health. I finally made it to Gate B44. The Flight 8686 also departed with about 15 minutes delay. On board, I had to pay for coffee €2.50 for a regular coffee. At that point I only wanted to get to my final destination. We landed in Bologna BLQ about 10 minutes late. There I had the final humiliation: my baggage was missing. I went to Baggage claim and was told that probably my suitcase was moved to a later flight which will land at night around 10:30pm. I filed a complaint form there and they told me they should call me if the baggage arrives and I would have to go back to the airport to pick it up. It is now 9:30pm and on the Air Berlin website there still no information about my baggage. This has been a horrible experience. I will now have to go back to the airport to hopefully pick up my luggage tonight. I'm exhausted and outraged by Air Berlin.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | New York to Bologna via Dusseldorf |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"awful customer service"
1 reviews Paul Northard (Libya)
✅ Verified Review | Warsaw to Abu Dhabi via Berlin Tegel. This airline has awful customer service when things go wrong. On June 30 our 21.50 flight transfer to Abu dhabi got cancelled until 16.00hr the following day but it actually took off even later by 2 hours. My wife and I arrived in Abu Dhabi 20 hours late minus our checked in cases. We filed a lost luggage report. We filed 2 complaints on Air Berlins site and tried to find out luggage on their tracer but nothing seems to work. The number they gave us didn't work and the pir number finds no match. We know our luggage is sitting in a store in Berlin. We've sent the baggage tags which the checkin should have changed for the delayed flight to Abu Dhabi but they told us to keep the old ones. We have been trying for days to contact Air Berlin to no avail as have Etihad their partner from Abu Dhabi. No contact at all. I've set up a facebook group to share their tales of woe and Air Berlin threatened to block me on their social media for doing so. Inflight service is fine but their ground staff and customer service are the worst I've encountered in hundreds of flights with different airlines. They've lost my custom and my wife's.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Warsaw to Abu Dhabi via Berlin |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"the worst airline service I experienced"
K Wilson (United States)
✅ Verified Review |
I travel very frequently for business and pleasure to Europe and this is by far the worst airline service I experienced within the past 10-15 years. The aircraft servicing flight from Chicago to Berlin was very old, seats did not recline, majority of TV screens did not work, despite the crews effort to reboot the audio system. Normally, obstacles like this wouldn't impact me, but traveling with kids makes a big difference (try to explain to your child he won't be able to recline the seat or use TV on 9 hrs flight). Lastly, and most importantly, Air Berlin lost our luggage. There were about 30 + other passengers flying on the same flight who reported missing luggage. It is been a week and we did not hear back from the airline. We sent about 11 emails to different departments with copies of claim, lost baggage tags, etc. No response. Furthermore, none of the telephone numbers provided on the website are working numbers. I do not recommend this airline and certainly will not consider it for any future travel.
Aircraft | A300 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Chicago to Warsaw via Berlin |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"will never fly with them again"
D Faisal (Sweden)
✅ Verified Review | Air Berlin is by far the worst airline I have ever flown on. They are always delayed, and for my flight from Berlin to Stockholm they didn't even post it on the screens. I can't think of any positive over other airlines. They are not the cheapest and do not offer good quality. This airline fails on every aspect of being an airline. Will never fly with them again.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Berlin to Stockholm |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"the leg space was also reasonable"
10 reviews Jan Birkner (Germany)
✅ Verified Review |
We traveled from Düsseldorf to Milano Linate with Air Berlin. The service on board of the Airbus aircraft was good. They offered a drink and a sweet or salty snack for free. Furthermore we recieved a chocolate heart. The biggest downside of this flight was the delay of 2.5 hours, due to this we lost a lot of time which we wanted to spend in Italy. The seats were comfortable and the leg space was also reasonable. The cabin crew was friendly and highly motivated.
Aircraft | A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Düsseldorf to Milano |
Date Flown | September 2016 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |