FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A Berlin court on Thursday rebuffed a legal challenge to the insolvency filing of airline Niki, which could derail the sale of the Air Berlin <AB1.DE> unit to Britain’s IAG <ICAG.L>, and referred the case to a higher court for a ruling.
Niki filed for insolvency in Berlin last month after Germany’s Lufthansa <LHAG.DE> scrapped plans to buy the Austrian unit, grounding the airline’s fleet and stranding thousands of passengers.
Following hurried talks to find a new owner for Niki before it loses its valuable runway slots, British Airways owner IAG agreed last Friday to buy the business and make it part of its low-cost unit Vueling.
But Fairplane, a group representing airline passengers, sai…
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