Tegel International Airport
Categories: Airports in Germany | Berlin transportation
Tegel International Airport (IATA: TXL, ICAO: EDDT) (often shortened to Tegel) is an airport in Berlin, Germany. It lies in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf. Tegel is referred to as the "Frequent Flyer Airport". Tegel has the most scheduled flights of the three airports serving Berlin. In 2003, it served 11.1 mio. passengers/year.
During the Berlin Airlift in 1948, the longest runway in Europe (2,400 m) was built at Tegel. Modern facilities were built in the 1970s, and Tegel began to replace Tempelhof International Airport as the main airport of West Berlin. Tempelhof, surrounded by urban development, was too noisy and its runways were too short for modern jumbo jets. During the Cold War, because of the special status of West Berlin, air traffic was restricted to Allied airlines (particularly Air France, Pan American World Airways and British Airways). According to a decade-old plan to replace the three airports currently serving Berlin with one, Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport will be expanded and become Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI). Tegel will then be closed about six months after operations begin at BBI (planned for 2007).
Tegel Airport is notable for its octagonal terminal building around an open square, which makes for walking distances as short as 100 ft. from any airplane, through luggage and customs, to taxi or bus.
Airlines
The following airlines fly to Tegel International Airport:
- Air Adriatic
- Air Baltic
- Air Berlin
- Air Dolomiti
- Air France
- Air Malta
- Alitalia
- Atlasjet
- Austrian Airlines
- British Airways
- British Airways Citiexpress
- Bulgarian Air Charter
- Cimber Air
- Continental Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- CSA Czech Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Deutsche BA
- Eurowings
- Finnair
- Freebird Airlines
- Germania Airlines
- Germania Express
- Hamburg International
- Hapag-Lloyd
- Hapag-Lloyd Express
- Iberia Airlines
- Interairlines
- KLM
- Lithuanian Airlines
- LOT Polish
- LTU International
- Lufthansa
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
- MIAT Mongolian
- MNG Airlines
- Nouvelair Tunisie
- Olympic Airlines
- Onur Air
- Pegasus Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- TAROM
- Thomas Cook Airlines
- Tunisair
- Turkish Airlines
- Ukraine International
- Volare Airlines