Berlin Schönefeld Airport

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld


IATA: SXF – ICAO: EDDB, ~~ETBS~~
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Berlin Airports
Serves		Berlin
Location		Schönefeld, Brandenburg
Hub for		EasyJet Germanwings
Elevation AMSL		157 ft / 48 m
Coordinates
Website		www.berlin-airport.de
Map
SXF Location within Berlin
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
07/25	3,600	11,881	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			7,297,911
Sources: German AIP at EUROCONTROL^[1]

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport (') (IATA: SXF, ICAO: EDDB) is an international airport located near the town of Schönefeld in Brandenburg, directly at the southern border of Berlin and 18 km (11 mi) southeast^[1] of the city centre. Schönefeld was the major civil airport of East Germany (GDR), and the only airport serving East Berlin. Today, it is the smaller of the two Berlin airports.

Schönefeld Airport is situated outside the city proper, unlike Berlin Tegel Airport. Noise pollution is, therefore, less of an issue at Schönefeld. This is the main reason that the airport will be transformed into Berlin Brandenburg Airport by 2012.^[2]

Schönefeld Airport saw a major increase in passenger numbers over the recent years, which was caused by the opening of a base for EasyJet and Germanwings. In 2008, the airport served 6.6 million passengers.

1 History
2 Terminals
3 Airlines and destinations
- 3.1 Cargo airlines
4 Other facilities
5 Public transport
6 Accidents and incidents
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

History

Berlin-Schönefeld airport was opened on 15 October 1934 to accommodate the Henschel aircraft plant. By the end of the Second World War, over 14,000 aircraft had been built. On 22 April 1945, the airport was occupied by Soviet troops, and the aircraft construction facilities were either dismantled or blown up. By late 1947, the airport rail link had been repaired and agricultural machinery was built and repaired on the site. In 1946, the Soviet Air Forces moved from Johannisthal Air Field to Schönefeld, including the civil airline Aeroflot. In 1947, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany approved the construction of a civilian airport at the site. Between 1947 and 1990, Schönefeld airport was renamed on several occasions and finally became the main airport of the DDR (Zentralflughafen).

A stipulation of the Four Power Agreement following World War II was a total ban on German carriers' participation in air transport to Berlin, where access was restricted to US, British, French and Soviet airlines. Since Berlin-Schönefeld airport was located outside of the city boundaries of Berlin, this restriction did not apply. Thus, German aircraft of the East German flag carrier Interflug, could use Schönefeld airport, whilst West German Lufthansa was denied access to Berlin-Tegel or Tempelhof airports.

Following the German reunification in 1990, operating three separate airports became increasingly prohibitive, leading the Berlin City Council to pursue a single airport that would be more efficient and would decrease the amount of aircraft noise from the airport within the city. Therefore, it was decided to erect Berlin Brandenburg Airport at the current site of Schönefeld Airport, which is scheduled for opening in October 2012. The new airport will share only one runway with the existing one. Most of the old airport, including the terminal and apron areas, is intended to undergo a complete urban redevelopment following its closure.

Terminals

Schönefeld Airport has four terminals (A, B, C, D),^[3] though this only applies for check-in, as there is only one jointly used airside concourse.

The main building is the original part of the airport. It houses check-in for Terminals A and B. Terminal A features check-in counters A01–A18, with the largest user being Ryanair. Terminal B, in a side wing, was originally reserved for transit passengers to and from West Berlin, who took advantage of cheaper air fares and package tours arranged by an East German travel agency. Nowadays, it is used exclusively by easyJet (check-in counters B20–B29), which gave it the name easyJet-Terminal. The airside consists of three jet bridges as well as several walk-boarding aircraft stands located at Pier 3a, an extension that was opened in 2005.
Terminal C was originally built to accommodate flights to Israel. It was reconfigured in 2008 and now handles sightseeing trips and flights in connection with special events.^[4] Some flights are operated on a vintage raisin bomber DC-3.
Terminal D was opened in December 2005 due to rapidly growing passenger numbers. Being nearly identical to Terminal C at Tegel Airport, it features check-in counters D40–D57, which are mainly used by Condor and Germanwings.

Airlines and destinations

Schönefeld Airport is served by the following scheduled airlines. On 3 June 2012 all services will be transferred to Berlin Brandenburg Airport:

Airlines	Destinations	Check-in
Aer Lingus	Dublin	D
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	A
Air VIA	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	D
Arkia Israel Airlines	Seasonal: Tel Aviv	D
Atlasjet	Seasonal: Antalya	D
Belavia	Minsk	A
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	D
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split	D
Condor	Agadir, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Antalya, Burgas, Chania, Constanta, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Heraklion, Jerez, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tivat	D
EasyJet	Agadir, Basel/Mulhouse, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester	A
EasyJet	Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Copenhagen, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Málaga, Milan-Malpensa, Mykonos [begins 24 June 2012], Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pisa, Rhodes [begins 23 June 2012], Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo	B
EgyptAir	Cairo	A
El Al	Tel Aviv	D
Germanwings	Bucharest-Băneasa, Cologne/Bonn, Maastricht/Aachen, Moscow-Vnukovo, Munich, Pristina, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Zagreb Seasonal: Bastia, Dubrovnik, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Pula, Split, Zadar	D
Iceland Express	Reykjavik-Keflavik	A
Israir Airlines	Tel Aviv	D
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Aalborg [begins 5 May 2012], Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Sandefjord [begins 26 March 2012], Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim [begins 28 March 2012]	D
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir	A
Pegasus Airlines	Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen	A
Rossiya	St Petersburg	A
Ryanair	Bergamo, Dublin, East Midlands, London-Stansted, Moss-Rygge, Stockholm-Skavsta Seasonal: Edinburgh	A
Sky Airlines	Antalya	A
Sky Work Airlines	Bern	A
SunExpress	Antalya,	A
SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Adana, Ankara, Kayseri, Gaziantep, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh	A
Syrian Air	Damascus, Vienna	A
Tunisair	Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis	A

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
West Air Sweden	Cologne/Bonn

Other facilities

Before its demise, the airline company Interflug had its headquarters on the airport property.^[5]^[6]

Public transport

Schönefeld Airport is served by Berlin Schönefeld Flughafen railway station, a short walking distance away from the airport terminal. Berlin S-Bahn lines S9 and S45 each run every twenty minutes. The RE AirportExpress train is the only direct link to the city centre of Berlin. It runs every 30 minutes, and stops at the most important stations of Berlin, including Berlin Ostbahnhof, Alexanderplatz, Friedrichstrasse, Central Station (after 30 minutes), and Zoologischer Garten railway station.
The airport is linked by local BVG bus lines 162 (towards Adlershof) and 171 (towards Neukölln). Additionaly the X7 bus service provides a connection to the Berlin U-Bahn network at Rudow Station^[7] At night, the underground replacement N7 bus is available.

Accidents and incidents

On 14 August 1972, an Ilyushin Il-62 aircraft of Interflug (registration DM-SEA) enroute to Burgas Airport crashed shortly after take-off from Schönefeld Airport near Königs Wusterhausen, killing all 156 passenger and crew on board. See Interflug Flight DM-SEA [sic].
On 22 November 1977, a Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft of Interflug (registration DM-SCM) crashed upon landing at Schönefeld Airport due to a falsely configured autopilot. There were no fatalities among the 74 passenger and crew, but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.^[8]
On 19 August 1978, LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165, a LOT flight from Gdansk Airport to Schönefeld (carried out on a Tupolev Tu-134, registration SP-LGC),was hijacked and forced to land at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin, thus having been used as a means for escaping the Eastern Bloc. In these cases, perpetrators were usually not charged by Western authorities.^[9]
On 12 December 1986, an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 (registration CCCP-65795) coming from Minsk Airport crashed in Berlin-Bohnsdorf on its approach towards Schönefeld airport, after having attempted to land on a runway that was temporary blocked for construction work, killing 72 of the 82 passengers and crew on board.^[10]
On 17 July 1989, an Ilyushin Il-62 aircraft of Interflug (registration DDR-SEW) bound for Moscow crashed shortly after take-off into a field near the airport and caught fire. 21 people on board as well as one person on the ground were killed. The East German authorities feared an act of sabotage due to the anniversary of the 17 June 1953, which lead to a delayed aid for injured people. West German rescuers offering help were denied access to the scene. The cause for the accident was later given as a jammed rudder due to a construction failure.^[11]
On 28 March 2000, a Boeing 737-300 of Germania (registration D-AGES) operating a charter flight on behalf of LTU from Tenerife South Airport to Berlin-Schönefeld was the subject of an attempted hijack in mid-flight. A passenger forced his way into the cockpit, where he attacked the pilot, leading to a sudden loss of altitude. The perpetrator was restrained and the flight continued to Berlin.^[12]
On 19 June 2010, Douglas DC-3 D-CXXX of Berlin Air Services crashed shortly after take off on a local sightseeing flight.

References

^ ^a ^b EAD Basic
^ The future lies in Schoenefeld
^ Schönefeld Airport layout
^ Event and Show Terminal C
^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 26 March 1988. 82. "Head Office: DDR-1189, Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen, German Democratic Republic."
^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 26 March 1970. 484. "Head Office: Zentralflughafen. Berlin-Schonefeld, 1189. German Democratic Republic."
^ Berlin bus lines. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
^ Interflug accident of 1977 at the Aircraft Accident Database. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
^ LOT highjacking at the Aircraft Accident Database. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
^ Aeroflot accident of 1986 at the Aviation Accident Database. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
^ Interflug accident of 1989 at the Aviation Accident Database. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
^ Germania attempted highjacking at the Aircraft Accident Database. Retrieved 2009-12-23.

External links

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