Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport
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| Berlin Brandenburg International Airport Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg International |
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| IATA: BER (planned) – ICAO: EDDB (planned) | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Berlin, Germany | ||
| Location | Schönefeld, Brandenburg | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 154 ft / 48 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 3,600 | 11,881 | ||
| 4,000 | 13,123 | ||
Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (German: Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg International) is the tentative new name of Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport (Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld) in Schönefeld, Germany, located near Berlin, scheduled for completion in 2011. An alternative name could be Hauptstadt-Airport BBI [1]. After a 10-year administrative court battle, on 16 March 2006 the federal administrative court in Leipzig gave the go-ahead for the project by ruling in favour of Berlin against challenges by residents and municipalities near the future airport. Schönefeld is located on the border between Berlin and Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin; the name reflects that the airport will serve both.
Berlin-Brandenburg International (BBI) will replace the three airports currently serving Berlin. The existing airport in Schönefeld will be greatly expanded to the south from its current state to allow this. In fact, the new airport will only have the current southern Runway (the new designated northern Runway) in common with the existing airport. Due to noise abatement regulations flights between midnight and 5 am will remain banned.
