On 1 May 2007, LTU operated the first Arctic & North Pole Sightseeing Flight from continental Europe in aviation history for their charter customer Deutsche Polarflug. The flight took 12h55m and the aircraft, an A330-200 took a group of 283 passengers from Düsseldorf via Norway, Svalbard, The North Pole, Eastern Greenland and Iceland back to Düsseldorf.
LTU opened a third long-haul base (to add to Düsseldorf and Munich) at Berlin-Tegel International Airport in October 2007 when it based a single Airbus A330-200 there to launch flights to Bangkok, Punta Cana and Varadero.[4]
Air Berlin announced in 2008 that the trademark LTU will no longer be used. All flights are now named Air Berlin.