The Berlin Airports

The best connections for the German capital city region.

Berlin Airports guarantees the air traffic infrastructure for the capital region of Berlin Brandenburg with the airports Schoenefeld and Tegel. From 2012, all air traffic will flow through the new Capital Airport Berlin Brandenburg International BBI. In a first step, Tempelhof Airport was closed on 30 October 2008. This will be followed in 2012 by the closure of Tegel Airport with the opening of BBI.

Passenger figures in 2009 almost reached the record level of 2008, with nearly 21 million passengers taking off and landing in Berlin. Down only 2 per cent on 2008, Berlin Airports fares much better than the average international commercial airport in Germany (down 4.6 per cent on 2008) for the seventh year in a row. This result has enabled it to further consolidate its position in third place in the ranking of German commercial airports, despite the difficult macroeconomic environment. Berlin’s share of the German air traffic market has also grown and is now 11.6 per cent. On a European scale Berlin ranks 15th.

Never before has Berlin been so well connected to the rest of the world. In 2009, a total of 77 airlines landed at Berlin airports. The European route system in particular is tightly knit. Berlin served more than 166 destinations in more than 50 countries in 2009, 123 of which were in Europe. With non-stop flights from Tegel to New York, Bangkok, Beijing and Doha, the capital of Qatar, the range of long-haul flights offered is constantly improving. Since November 2009, Berlin has also been directly connected to another destination in Thailand – Phuket.