Auf Wiedersehen Tegel

So sad absolutely one of my favorite airports. So easy to get around and I just loved arriving and departing from there. Gonna miss it for sure.

I can’t believe this is finally, really happening. Enfin!!

Be interesting to see what happens on Nov 9.

I'm glad I had a chance to fly into/out of Tegel several times. It always felt like hallowed ground to me. It was created to add capacity to the Berlin airlift... it's functionality for that purpose was aided by the French blowing up a couple of Russian-controlled transmission towers...

https://www.billdownscbs.com/2017/02/1948-french-destroy-soviet-controlled.html

They built this airport in 2 months, working 24 hours a day, with 17,000 workers and with 40% of the labor being done by women. It was integral to the success of the Berlin Airlift.

This sentence really jumped out at me:

Tegel was designed for handling 2.5 million passengers a year, but 24 million people flew from here in 2019.

I know a lot of older airports are handling a lot more passengers than they were built for, but this is extreme!

Big tears from me as local.

TXL was the last existing of West-Berlin's air gateways.

As raised up with this airport where you need 50 metres from taxi to gateway I never understood what all the other airports made "wrong"? ;-)

On my 18th birthday I was flying from TXL to Hamburg - unbelievable today - to get a helicopter round trip over Hamburg. That was not allowed over Berlin.

As consultant I used Tegel a lot at the end of the 90s and I was regularly using it once or twice a week from 2009 to 2014 flying to Bonn and Frankfurt.

By the way: Berlin's senate from socialist and green party close this airport against the will of the majority of people.

Thank you, TXL!

I will likely miss you.

A nice picture series about Berlin Tegel airport TXL provided by Deutsche Welle.

Picture 10: I remember this day the B747 was flying directly over our house on special route across Berlin. Whole landing of German team and disembarking was live on public German TV. Funny detail: the gate operator was wearing a Hertha BSC cap (local football club).

Memories of Tegel from the BBC's Berlin correspondent, Jenny Hill, from 22:20 to end, 5 minutes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p0fs

Even though far fewer people are flying than usual, Berlin is opening a new airport today, Berlin-Brandenburg. Not that it was planned that way. The modern airport was meant to open a decade ago, but there were repeated delays and it went almost three times over budget. So are the locals glad the big day has finally come? Not really, says Jenny Hill, who’s not the only one in Berlin who will be mourning the old airport, Tegel.