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Relocation to BER airport completed
Posted: Nov 08, 2020 2:38 pm
Updated: November 08, 2020 4:19 pm
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60 years after the first scheduled flight, Berlin Tegel Airport is closed. An Air France special plane to Paris took off for the last flight on Sunday. Air traffic in the German capital region now runs solely through the new BER airport in Schönefeld. On Saturday, the last airlines flew their planes from Tegel to the new location. One week after the opening of the Willy Brandt airport in Berlin-Brandenburg, the move is complete.
For Tegel this means the end. Thousands of visitors arrived Saturday to watch the last day of operations at the airport known as TXL. In 1960, an Air France plane was the first plane to land at Tegel after its inauguration. It was now the last airline to take off from there. However, Tegel will only lose its airport license in about six months. It will remain operational until then, but will probably no longer be needed.
Small turnstile Berlin-Tegel
Last year, more than 24 million passengers took off and landed at Tegel Airport, which was last designed for around 10 million passengers a year. For years, much of the air traffic in the capital has been managed through the location, which until recently was completely overloaded.
WHAT / AFP / POOL / John MACDOUGALL
Berlin-Tegel airport ceases operations.
The Easyjet airline, the largest operator in Berlin until then, operated the largest location outside its home country of England at Tegel. Many domestic flights also took off and landed there. However, the Corona crisis had almost brought air traffic to a halt in the spring and currently only about a third of the machines are flying compared to normal times.
(Quelle: What / Dpa)
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