Many proclaimed that an era ended in Berlin when Tegel Airport ceased flights six months ago. Yet on Wednesday at midnight, operations are set to officially end.
Berlin's beloved Cold War-era Tegel airport
finally closed its doors Sunday after a last flight took off, one week after a
much-delayed replacement hub opened on the other side of the German capital.
Drab and outdated but beloved for its convenience and quirky hexagonal design, Berlin's Tegel airport will finally close for good on Sunday after more than 60 years.
On November 8th, a plane will take off from Tegel for the final time. Could this finally be the end of the line for the 60-year-old airport? Not quite. New plans are in the works to regenerate the area.
Public transport passengers in Berlin, including those travelling to airports, have been facing disruption on Monday during a full day strike by BVG staff.
Shocking to no one, Berlin has some of the most hated airports in the world. Germany as a whole, though, holds some of the top spots on a ranking of traveller’s favourite airports.
A Eurowings flight from Berlin’s Tegel Airport to Cologne was delayed by an hour and a half on Monday morning after a bodyguard mistakenly fired his pistol during boarding. He was reportedly new in the job.
Ground crews at airports in Berlin have reached a pay deal with employers after repeated strikes that have grounded flights in recent weeks, the two sides said on Tuesday.
Thousands of Berliners are facing travel misery after ground crews at both the German capital's airports started striking early on Friday morning, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations.
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.
Berlin's beleaguered BER airport, currently delayed four years past its original opening date, has a new boss in former Rolls Royce manager Karsten MĂĽhlenfeld, it was announced at the weekend.
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport CEO Hartmut Mehdorn announced on Monday that he is stepping down from his position as soon as the airport authority finds his replacement.
UPDATE: The discovery of a US World War II bomb disrupted flights at Berlin’s Tegel Airport on Wednesday afternoon, with no flights taking off or landing for 30 minutes. The bomb has now been defused but later flights are still delayed.
The delay-hobbled Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) will already be overburdened when - or if - it opens in 2016 as passenger volume exceeds initial forecasts, it was reported on Tuesday.
Budget airlines are expanding their range of routes from Germany but ticket prices are climbing along with them, a report from the German Aeronautics Centre (DLR) revealed on Thursday.
Concern is rising in Berlin that the much-delayed and over-budget BER new international airport could be even later than expected after an expected partial opening seemed likely to be put back by several months.
The long-running farce that is Berlin's new airport (BER) took another whirl this week, when the airport chief faced down claims he wanted to keep Tegel airport open as a "premium location" and that the new airport would serve budget airlines.
