Reading Time: 2 minutes Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) has undergone all preparations for successful commissioning. All permits have been granted, all processes have been tested extensively and the airport is prepared for the opening  on 31st October. BER was originally supposed to open in March 2011, the first of 10 planned starting dates that thus far have expired. Its […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Airbus A321, performing flight from Munich to Helsinki with 158 passengers on board, was enroute south of Berlin when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine down and diverted the aircraft to Berlin Tegel for a safe landing. The airport reported the aircraft landed single engine. The airline confirmed the aircraft landed […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute With a decrease of 11.9% compared to October 2016, passenger numbers at Berlin Tegel have fallen significantly. Despite slight growth at Schönefeld (+ 3.3%), the total number of passengers at both Berlin airports has fallen by 6.2% compared to the same month of the previous year. As a result, the airberlin crisis has had a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Berlin has stopped offering direct flights from Berlin Tegel to Abu Dhabi Int’l, San Francisco, CA, Chicago O’Hare, Boston and Los Angeles Int’l from the end of September. Connecting long haul flights via Dusseldorf are still available, with the exception of Dusseldorf – Boston. Flights from Berlin to New York JFK are so far […]