Berlin International Airport in Tegel "
Otto Lilienthal" (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
2007 it will be serving over 13 million passagers. 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,
Trans World Airlines, 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.
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