Berlin-Tegel International Airport
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| Berlin International Airport in Tegel Flughafen Berlin-Tegel |
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| IATA: TXL - ICAO: EDDT | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Berlin Airports | ||
| Serves | Berlin | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 121 ft (39 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 08L/26R | 9,918 | 3,023 | Paved |
| 08R/26L | 7,953 | 2,424 | Paved |
Berlin International Airport in Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" (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" and has the most scheduled flights of the three airports serving Berlin. In 2006, it served 11.8 million passengers. The airport is scheduled to close in 2011, six months after the formation of a new terminal expansion and the renaming of the Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport to the Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, which is slated to handle all Berlin flights thenceforth.[1]
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 (formerly British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corporation prior to merging in 1974).
Tegel Airport is notable for its hexagonal 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.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barcelona, Catania, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Düsseldorf, Faro, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gothenburg-City [starts May 2, 2007], Helsinki, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez, Kos, Las Palmas, Karlsruhe, London-Stansted, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Milan-Bergamo, Monastir, Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster, Munich, Naples, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Rimini [starts 12 May 2007], Rome-Fiumicino, Samos, Sharm El-Sheikh, Santa Cruz de la Palma, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda [starts May 2007], Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Westerland/Sylt, Vienna, Zürich)
- Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca [starts in summer 07])
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Italy (Verona [starts June 1, 2007])
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air One (Milan-Linate)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Atlas Blue (Agadir)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Blue1 (Helsinki)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Bulgarian Air Charter (Burgas, Varna)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Condor Airlines (Antalya, Arrecife, Chania, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Jerez, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife-South)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Free Bird Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Germania (Tbilisi)
- Hamburg International (Larnaca)
- Hemus Air (Sofia)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- Inter Airlines (Antalya)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart, Vienna, Westerland/Sylt, Zürich)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Saarmelleek/Balaton)
- MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Ulanbaatar)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Antalya)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- operated by SAS Braathens (Oslo)
- Sky Airlines (Antalya)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Izmir)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo]
- TUIfly (Antalya, Arrecife, Cologne/Bonn, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Klagenfurt, Las Palmas, Memmingen, Monastir, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Palermo, Rhodos, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Venice)
- Tunisair (Monastir)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil, Simferopol)
