Berlin Tegel Airport

"Berlin-Tegel" redirects here. For the locality in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf, see Tegel.

Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport

Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“
Tegel Airport in September 2011
Summary
Airport typeDefunct
OperatorFlughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH
Serves
LocationReinickendorf, Berlin, Germany
Opened1 April 1974 (1974-04-01)
Closed4 May 2021 (2021-05-04)[1]
Passenger services ceased8 November 2020 (2020-11-08)[2][3]
Hub for
Built5 November 1948 (1948-11-05)
Elevation AMSL122 ft / 37 m
Coordinates52°33′35″N 013°17′16″E / 52.55972°N 13.28778°E / 52.55972; 13.28778
Map
TXL/EDDT is located in Berlin
TXL/EDDT
TXL/EDDT
Location within Berlin
TXL/EDDT is located in Germany
TXL/EDDT
TXL/EDDT
TXL/EDDT (Germany)
TXL/EDDT is located in Europe
TXL/EDDT
TXL/EDDT
TXL/EDDT (Europe)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08L/26R 3,023 9,918 Asphalt concrete (closed)
08R/26L 2,428 7,966 Asphalt concrete (closed)
Statistics (2019)
Passengers24,227,570
Passenger change 18–19Increase +10.1%
Sources: Passenger traffic, ACI Europe[4]
German AIP at EUROCONTROL[5]

Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport (German: Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“) (IATA: TXL, ICAO: EDDT) was the primary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The airport was named after aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal and was the fourth busiest airport in Germany, with over 24 million passengers in 2019. In 2016, Tegel handled over 60% of all airline passenger traffic in Berlin.[6] The airport served as a base for Eurowings, Ryanair and easyJet.[7] It featured flights to several European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as some intercontinental routes. It was situated in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf, eight kilometres (five miles) northwest of the city centre of Berlin. Tegel Airport was notable for its hexagonal main terminal building around an open square, which made walking distances as short as 30 m (100 ft) from the aircraft to the terminal exit.

TXL saw its last flight on 8 November 2020[2] after all traffic had been transferred gradually to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport until that date.[8][9] It was legally decommissioned as an airfield after a mandatory transitional period on 4 May 2021.[1] All government flights were also relocated to the new airport with the exception of helicopter operations which will stay at a separate area on the northern side of Tegel Airport until 2029.[10]

The airport's grounds are due to be redeveloped into a new city quarter dedicated to scientific and industrial research named Urban Tech Republic which is to retain the airport's main building and tower as a repurposed landmark.[11]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference decomissioning2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TXLlastflight was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ aerotelegraph.com - "That's how airlines say Goodbye to Tegel" (German) 8 November 2020
  4. ^ "Passenger record 2016: 32.9 million passengers at Berlin's airports". Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  5. ^ "EAD Basic". Euro Control. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Berliner Flughäfen steigern 2016 ihre Passagierzahlen um elf Prozent". airliners.de. Berlin. 12 January 2017. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference EZYTXL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ rbb24.de - "Airport stays open until November" Archived 8 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine (German) 3 June 2020
  9. ^ aerotelegraph.com - "Moving schedule" (German) 1 October 2020
  10. ^ rbb24.de Archived 9 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine (German) 21 October 2020
  11. ^ "Detail". Berlin TXL. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.