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Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Berlin, Germany

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Elevation

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Location

Berlin · BR · Germany

Position

52.362°, 13.502° · 157 ft elev.

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Berlin's long-awaited main international gateway, finally open.

Opened

2020

Location

Berlin, Germany

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), officially named Willy Brandt Airport, is the primary international airport serving the German capital and the surrounding Brandenburg region. It replaced the former airports of Tegel and Schönefeld, consolidating Berlin's air traffic into a single modern facility located southeast of the city center. The airport's opening was plagued by years of delays and construction problems, making it one of the most notorious infrastructure failures in modern German history. Originally scheduled to open in 2011, it finally welcomed its first passengers in October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. BER handles millions of passengers annually and serves as a hub for Ryanair and easyJet, with Lufthansa and other major carriers also operating regular services. The airport is designed to handle up to 45 million passengers per year at full capacity.

Terminals

The airport features two main terminals, Terminal 1 (the new main building) and Terminal 2 (the former Schönefeld terminal), serving departing and arriving passengers across multiple piers.

Getting to & from

BER is served by the Airport Express (FEX) and S-Bahn S9/S45 rail lines connecting to Berlin city center in approximately 30 minutes, as well as bus services and taxis.

Airlines here

Major airlines operating at BER include Ryanair and easyJet, which use it as a key base, alongside Lufthansa, Eurowings, and numerous other European and international carriers.

Notable facts

›Originally planned to open in 2011, the airport was delayed by nearly a decade due to construction defects and fire safety system failures.
›The airport is officially named Willy Brandt Airport after the former German Chancellor.
›It replaced Berlin Tegel Airport, which closed in November 2020, and absorbed operations from the adjacent Schönefeld Airport.
›The opening ceremony in October 2020 coincided with a sharp downturn in air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
›Cost overruns pushed the total project expenditure to over €7 billion, far exceeding the original budget.

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•Brandenburg Gate & Reichstag — The reunified nation's front door; book the glass dome.
•East Side Gallery — 1.3 km of painted Berlin Wall.
•Museum Island — Five UNESCO museums including the Pergamon.
•Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe — The sobering field of stelae.
•Mauerpark Sunday — Flea market and open-air karaoke.

Getting around: U-Bahn, S-Bahn, trams and night buses run 24/7 on weekends; the FEX airport express reaches Hauptbahnhof in 30 minutes.

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Encyclopaedia

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is an international airport in Schönefeld, just south of the German capital and state of Berlin, in the state of Brandenburg. It is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the city centre and serves as a base for Condor, easyJet, Eurowings, Ryanair and Sundair. It mostly has flights to European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as a number of intercontinental services.

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