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Concurrently, AB agreed to acquire a 19.9% stake in TUIfly.</sdc:value></sdc:n_synopsis2><sdc:n_synopsis3><sdc:value sdc:p="0">GERMANY - TUI Travel PLC of the UK agreed to acquire a 19. 9% stake in Air Berlin PLC &amp; Co</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="1">Luftverkehrs KG (AB), a Berlin-based provider of airline transportation services, for 64.8</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="2">mil euros (60.168 mil British pounds/ $85.703 mil US) in cash, in a privately negotiated</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="3">transaction, via capital increase. 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