Budget airline EasyJet has partly acquired Air Berlin operations at Berlin Tegel Airport.
The €40m deal includes some of Air Berlin's operations at Tegel airport, leases for up to 25 A320 aircraft and about 1,000 of Air Berlin's pilots and cabin crew.
It will make EasyJet the largest carrier in the German capital.
The airline currently flies from Berlin Schoenefeld airport to destinations outside Germany. The deal will allow it to move into the larger inner-city Tegel airport.
The British company was expected to confirm the acquisition after it gained unconditional EU competiton approval last week.
Air Berlin filed for insolvency in August and is being carved up among several buyers.
