Passengers should expect flight delays and cancellations at Berlin's two airports on Thursday due to a ground crew strike strike over pay, union officials announced.
Emergency services temporarily evacuated Hamburg airport Sunday and treated almost 70 people after an irritant gas was released in the building - probably by a "prankster" using pepper spray, firefighters said.
Germany's federal police are having to fight off an accusation that has made international headlines - that a woman passing through Frankfurt Airport was made to prove that she was lactating.
The man responsible for pulling Berlin’s fiasco of an international airport out of the mud has said that there is almost no chance it will meet its already delayed 2017 opening deadline.
The bosses of Berlin’s new international airport have been criticized for offering bonuses to the companies building the long-delayed and over-budget project.
As most who have rushed to catch a flight but still got stuck in security know, those long airport lines can be a traveller’s worst nightmare. But Cologne-Bonn airport is hoping to make the process faster - and more attractive - with a new system.
UPDATE: Some 100 flights were cancelled on Wednesday at Frankfurt Airport due to a partial evacuation and search of the transfer hub after a woman managed to evade security checks.
A former department head at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) admitted in court on Tuesday to being handed a huge amounts of cash in a carpark by an employee of the firm Imtech, which had been contracted to work on the long-delayed airport project.
Politicians in Berlin are meeting on Friday with those in charge of BER to discuss the future of Berlin's airports, including Schönefeld and Tegel, which are still scheduled for new uses in 2018.
Travellers are set to wait still longer for Berlin's much-delayed new airport to open, as city media report that a provisional opening date in late 2017 is no longer achievable.
A worker was allowed access to secure areas of both of Berlin's airports for up to 10 months after authorities found out he had links to fundamentalist Islam, media reported on Wednesday.
The man formerly responsible for planning Berlin’s much-delayed international airport has claimed the air hub will never open, after a series of failures have left city authorities red faced.
Around 1,000 passengers were delayed at Cologne-Bonn airport on Tuesday after a plain-clothes police officer reached airside without passing through security checks.
Discombobulated by the leap year, the luggage conveyor system at DĂĽsseldorf Airport refused to let 1,200 pieces of luggage onto planes on Tuesday morning.
On Monday, Munich Airport unveiled its swanky new driverless trains - further humiliating Berlin with its serially derailed attempts to build an air hub of its own.
An Airbus plane suffered an unusual accident at Berlin's Schönefeld airport in the early hours of Wednesday after it collided with a light mast on the taxiway.
An Air Berlin flight from DĂĽsseldorf to the Greek island of Kos was forced to make an unexpected landing in Munich on Monday when it turned out that the plane had a hole in its wing.
Work on Berlin's much-delayed new BER airport has suffered another setback as builders had to down tools on Monday over fears that the roof could not support the air conditioning units that have been installed.
Berlin's troubled international airport project, already five years behind schedule, has been fraught by mismanagement, fraud and corruption, and a vicious streak of bad luck.
