After years and years of watiing, Tegel Airport is about to close to make way for the new Berlin airport. At least, that's the plan.
Posted by
Minden, Nevada, SA
37 posts
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.
Posted by
Paris
11474 posts
I can’t believe this is finally, really happening. Enfin!!
Posted by
Edmonds, WA 🌨 ☂
13618 posts
Be interesting to see what happens on Nov 9.
Posted by
Lexington, KY (formerly Southeast US)
4751 posts
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
Posted by
Frankfurt, Germany
9828 posts
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.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
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!
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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.