Berlin Schönefeld Airport

Berlin-Schönefeld is a redirect to this article. For the train station belonging to the airport, see Berlin-Schönefeld Airport train station

Berlin Schönefeld Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDDB, until 1995: ETBS
IATA code	SXF
Coordinates	52 ° 23 '18 "  N , 13 ° 31' 12"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '18 "  N , 13 ° 31' 12"  E
Height above MSL	47 m (154  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	20 km south of Berlin ( town hall )
Street
train	Long-distance traffic Regional traffic : RE7 , RB14 , RB22
Local transport	S-Bahn : Bus: X7, 163, 164, 171, 734, 735, 736, 741, 742, N7, N60
Basic data
opening	1946
closure	in consideration
operator	Berlin Brandenburg Airport GmbH
surface	630 ha
Terminals	4th
Passengers	11,417,435 (2019)
Air freight	13,235 t (2019)
Flight movements	95,364 (2019)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	12 million (since 12/2016)
Employees	1,178 (SXF, as of December 31, 2013)
Start-and runway
07L / 25R (formerly 07R / 25L)	3600 m × 45 m asphalt

The airport Berlin-Schoenefeld ( IATA code : SXF , ICAO code : EDDB until 1995: ETBS as DDR -airport) is next to the airport Tegel one of the two international airports in the greater Berlin area . The airport is operated by Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB; until the end of 2011 Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld GmbH ) with the partners State of Berlin , State of Brandenburg and the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 2019, 11,417,435 passengers were handled at the airport. In terms of passenger numbers, the airport ranked seventh in Germany in 2016.

The new Berlin Brandenburg Airport is being built to the south of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport .

Location and transport links

Location of the active and former Berlin airports

Fast connections from the airport to Berlin (as of 2017)

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport is located in the municipality of Schönefeld ( Dahme-Spreewald district , Brandenburg ), and a small part of the northern runway, which is no longer used, is located in Berlin's urban area. The airport is located around 22 kilometers southeast of Berlin's city center at an altitude of 48  m above sea level. NHN . With an area of ​​620  hectares, it is the largest airport in the region. It is connected to rail traffic via the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport train station . Regional and S-Bahn (lines S45 and S9) stop there . The “Airport Express” runs twice an hour with the RE7 and RB14 lines to Berlin Central Station via the Ostbahnhof and the RB22 to Potsdam . The airport can also be reached by various bus routes. You can get to the airport by car via the A 113 . There are taxi stands in front of the entrance area of Terminal  L.

history

Henschel aircraft works

On October 15, 1934, construction began on the Henschel Flugzeug-Werke (HFW) in Schönefeld , which had built over 14,000 aircraft by the end of World War II . For this purpose, three concrete runways, each 800 meters long, were built. During the Battle of Berlin on April 22, 1945, the HFW was occupied by Soviet troops . After the Soviet occupation forces had either dismantled and transported away or blown up the facilities for aircraft construction, railways were repaired and agricultural machinery built and repaired on the site until 1947.

After the Second World War

Airport construction, 1961

Tu-144 at the start in Schönefeld in the early 1970s

In 1946 the Soviet air forces moved from Johannisthal to Schönefeld; Aeroflot started operating in the same year. In 1947, the Soviet military administration in Germany ordered the construction of a civilian airport in Schönefeld in SMAD order number 93. After the completion of the original construction, the airport was expanded several times until the political change in 1990. This made it the central airport of the GDR ; A long-term capacity of 18 million passengers per year was planned. It was declared a so-called " youth object ", which underlined its importance for the GDR.

Due to the location outside the city limits of Berlin, not only allied airlines, but also airlines from all over the world, could take off and land in Schönefeld (unlike in Tegel and Tempelhof ) despite the special position in connection with Berlin's four-power status . “All States” also includes GDR airlines such as Interflug or, before its dissolution in 1963, Deutsche Lufthansa of the GDR . From a purely legal point of view , even West German airlines such as Lufthansa could have flown to Schönefeld, but in view of the Cold War this did not happen for ideological reasons. Only the eastern end of the runway north ( which no longer exists today because of the motorway ) protruded a bit into Bohnsdorf , so that an eastern approach (or take-off towards the east) on this runway had to take place partially over East Berlin's urban area, which is true Strictly speaking, it was not legal for non-allied airlines, but it was apparently tolerated by the occupying powers.

From the 1960s to the political turning point , the airport, which was known as the “Central Berlin-Schönefeld Airport” until the 1970s, was also very interesting for the people of West Berlin , because many destinations in Eastern Europe , such as Budapest or Prague , can be found from here , and later more and more destinations in Western Europe (except in the Federal Republic) that were either not served from Tempelhof or Tegel airports or were approached at considerably more expensive rates. Since the compensation for kerosene in the air traffic of the Eastern Bloc was often made within the framework of special trade conditions within the states, the operating costs for Interflug played only a subordinate role, so that it could afford to keep the airfares up to 70% below the level of flights on the same route from Tegel or Tempelhof to lower. As a feeder specifically for West Berlin passengers, there was also a bus connection operated by the East Berlin transport company , which was maintained from 1963 to 1990; it led from the airport to the Hotel Arosa in Charlottenburg ( Kurfürstendamm corner Adenauerplatz ) and stopped at the West Berlin exhibition center (at the central bus station there ) and in Wilmersdorf ( Güntzelstraße / corner Uhlandstraße , in front of the GDR travel agency Helios , which was located there at the time ).

On October 3, 1959, a jet passenger plane landed in Berlin-Schönefeld for the first time, a Caravelle of the SAS . The airport was classified as Group 1 by the ICAO in 1961 .

In 1960 the GDR leadership decided on a general plan for the expansion of the Berlin-Schönefeld central airport. The planning was based on the expected passenger numbers for the coming decades (3.5 million for Schönefeld and around 14 million for all of Berlin by 1980) as well as the need for an airport that meets the requirements of modern jet traffic and efficient passenger handling. The plans provided for the separation of short and long haul traffic. A terminal building with two piers and two short runways was to be built north of the station; to the south a terminal building with two piers and one or two additional runways. The existing runway was to be extended to over four kilometers. In addition, a generous connection with S-Bahn , U-Bahn and long-distance trains was planned.

A comparison of expansion plans for Schönefeld Airport

The limit of one million passengers was exceeded in 1969, but this could only be increased to three million in 1990. Shortly before the end of the GDR, Interflug served 53 destinations on four continents from Schönefeld.

In 1976, what is now Terminal L, located in the north of the airport, was put into operation under the name NPA (New Passenger Handling). It was expanded by the current Terminals K and Q by 1985, which are attached to Terminal L on the left and right, respectively. At the time, Terminal K (today: easyJet terminal ) was reserved “specifically for transit passengers from and to West Berlin”, which is why it was sealed off from the other terminals inside the airport building and from the rest of the large forecourt outside and only through it a checkpoint with a barrier could be approached. The corresponding shuttle buses (see above) from West Berlin were then no longer checked at the nearby border crossing (Waltersdorfer Chaussee); instead, only a member of the passport control units of the GDR border troops came there and drove the short distance to Terminal K. with (so that no GDR citizen could get on the transit bus during this journey and thus go unnoticed into the “west area” of the airport). There, the handling, baggage handover and ID and identity checks of West Berlin passengers also took place separately; they were only brought together with the “general” (East) air travelers in the large waiting hall at the gates . On arrival, the same procedure was reversed: From 1985, passengers to West Berlin no longer had to go to the general 'entry hall' (as the arrival hall was called there), but were immediately directed to the arrival area of ​​Terminal K - not without first to be strictly checked by ID checks. There they then boarded the transit bus, where again a member of the passport control units (for the reasons mentioned) drove to the border crossing, simply got off there and "released" the bus to West Berlin without further controls. This new approach (elimination of the additional controls at the border crossing) made West Berlin feeder traffic to Schönefeld considerably easier and more time-saving from 1985 onwards.

Terminal Q was already in operation at the beginning of 1984 and was designed as an external VIP lounge with two salons for VIPs in first and second class, specially secured by the Stasi . The name used at the time was "special room". Access was only granted to foreign guests of the GDR government accompanied by their hosts or their subordinate state organizations, who usually traveled with a service or diplomatic passport , but with regular scheduled flights. Check-in and all required controls were either completely waived or carried out discreetly, while the travelers waited for snacks and fine drinks either for their departure or for their luggage. It was not uncommon for the then Deputy Minister of Transport and General Director of Interflug , Lieutenant General Klaus Henkes , to keep them company. Also, the boarding was carried out separately, usually after all other passengers. After 1990 the special room was converted into a small Terminal Q for particularly security-sensitive flights, for example to Israel or charter flights to North America . Since 2015, Terminal Q has had additional security lanes with automated boarding pass controls for passengers who only travel with hand luggage and have already checked in.

The visitor terrace with restaurant is located on the second floor of Terminal L. Originally the terrace extended across the entire width of the building. However, only a narrower area above Terminal L has been accessible since the 1990s.

The Interflug shipyard and maintenance facilities were located in the southern part of the airport. Today they are used by Lufthansa in a modernized state. The southern area was partly used for military purposes. The NVA Transport Fliegergeschwader 44 (TG-44) relocated the use of the Tu-134 government aircraft from Marxwalde (today's Neuhardenberg ) to Schönefeld in the early 1980s , as many flight operations with members of the government began from Berlin. Three machines of the type Il-62 were also relocated from the TG-44 in Schönefeld.

After reunification

Interior view of Terminal L.

Exterior view of Terminal M (formerly: D)

A Concorde on March 20, 1999 in Schönefeld

Take-off of an Airbus A320 , in the background the old tower and the Berlin television tower

After the reunification of Germany and Berlin, the airport initially had to record a significant decline in passenger numbers despite additional expansions in the 1990s. This resulted from the shutdown of Interflug in 1991 and the relocation of other airlines to the more modern and more centrally located Berlin-Tegel Airport. The airport developed backwards during this period - mostly charter flights have been handled since that time. Nevertheless, the renovated southern runway was put into operation in 1992. From 1991 to 1993, took Lufttransportgeschwader 65 of the Air Force with its Il-62M from the airport. Until after the political change, the aircraft positions close to the building were also accessible to passengers on foot via the apron. The three passenger boarding bridges at Terminal L were only built after 1993.

The operating company opened an expansion of the terminal in 1995. In the spring of 1996, the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Berlin and Brandenburg decided to expand the airport into the major Berlin Brandenburg airport. The few remaining classic line connections during this period were and still are those of Aeroflot to Moscow and those of Rossija (formerly: Pulkovo ) to Saint Petersburg .

The period when charter airlines were dominant lasted until 2003; Since then, low-cost airlines have increasingly settled in Schönefeld: Ryanair and KLM subsidiary buzz also took over the Schönefeld – London route, while V Bird started flights to Niederrhein . Since autumn 2003, Germanwings has not been flying from Tegel to various national destinations, but from Schönefeld. However, the settlement of easyJet on April 28, 2004, which has since used the airport as a starting point for several flight connections, was particularly important for the airport . In 2005, Berlin-Schönefeld became the second largest easyJet base in Europe after London-Luton . On March 11, 2005, Germanwings announced that it would use Schönefeld as the base airport for initially two aircraft from June of that year. A peaceful coexistence with easyJet at Schönefeld Airport is being sought, and destinations not served by easyJet should primarily be flown to. With the start of the 2012/2013 winter flight schedule, Germanwings moved to Tegel Airport .

Terminal M was opened on December 19, 2005 and is mainly used for handling low-cost flights. Terminal M was mainly used by the low-cost airline Germanwings until autumn 2012 . Originally it was considered to relocate easyJet from Terminal K to Terminal M. Due to the increased use of low-cost airlines, the airport was able to increase its passenger numbers in 2005 by 50 percent compared to the previous year and thus to 5.08 million passengers. That is the biggest increase compared to the other airports in Berlin.

In 2006, the number of employees at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport was 5713.

Since 2006, Schönefeld station is no longer a long-distance station. On November 30, 2007, the northern runway of the airport was closed and then partially demolished in order to close the gap on federal motorway 113 . Since then, air traffic has only been handled on the southern runway, which has now been the new northern runway since the construction of the southern runway at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. A remaining section of the former northern runway, which has now been demolished, is now used as a parking area for larger aircraft for general aviation that have been parked for longer , as the previous parking positions can no longer be used due to construction work at the airport.

Expansion to Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Schönefeld Airport with the planning status at the start of construction

→ Main article : Berlin Brandenburg Airport

After the extensive expansion planned in the 1960s, but only partially implemented, an elaborate spatial planning procedure for a new major airport was carried out in the first half of the 1990s in order to cope with the sharp rise in passenger numbers in Berlin after the political change in the future. From 1996 the airport company planned with the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg as well as the federal government to develop Schönefeld Airport into a more efficient “single airport” by 2012 - that is, Berlin's only airport. The aim is to make Schönefeld the most important passenger and air freight airport in the capital region and Germany (alongside Frankfurt and Munich ). The Tegel airport will be closed no later than six months after commissioning of the new airport. The Tempelhof airport was closed end of October of 2008. In 2006 the federal states of Brandenburg and Berlin as well as the federal government began with the expansion.

As part of these expansion activities, the northern runway (the northern of the two parallel runways) with the designation 07L / 25R was closed on December 1, 2007 and soon afterwards partially dismantled and renatured. The new federal highway 113 crosses the former course of this runway. Now only the southern runway (former designation 07R / 25L) was left, which according to the plans is to become the northern runway of the new major airport. It was extended by 600 meters to 3600 meters and opened for operation on April 23, 2012. Since May 3, 2012, this runway has been called 07L / 25R, which it will retain for the new BER airport. It was closed for renovation on May 2, 2015, while operations were carried out exclusively on the new 07R / 25L southern runway. Work on the renovation of the northern runway began on May 6, 2015 and was completed on October 24, 2015. Until the opening of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, only the northern runway is usually in operation in Schönefeld. In the summer of 2017, Schönefeld Airport is to be expanded and the southern runway will be used again instead of the northern runway for three months.

The terminal areas at Schönefeld Airport were given new names at the end of March 2020. When Berlin Brandenburg Airport goes into operation at the end of October 2020, Schönefeld Airport will become Terminal 5 of BER. In order to avoid duplicate designation of terminal areas and gates at BER, the former terminals A, B, C and D were renamed to K, L, M, Q.

Furnishing

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View of the apron

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport has four terminals, which have been called K, L, M and Q since the end of March 2020. Most airlines land and take off at Terminal L. EasyJet is the only airline in Terminal K. Terminal M is used by Ryanair , Condor , Sunexpress , WOW air and Norwegian Air Shuttle . There was special security equipment in Terminal Q until 2008, which is why flights with particularly high security requirements, for example to Israel , were handled here for a long time . It was then used as a "show and event location" that could be booked for conferences and private parties. In addition, sightseeing flights started from here in a historic raisin bomber , which was severely damaged in an emergency landing on June 19, 2010 and has been unable to fly since then. Since November 2015, additional security checks have been installed in Terminal Q to increase capacity; these are only available to passengers without checked baggage who have already checked in online. Terminal L is the only terminal with passenger boarding bridges , three of which are located on the apron. There are a total of 36 aircraft parking positions. The General Aviation Terminal (GAT) is located in the south of the facility. From there, private planes, taxi flights, charter and helicopter flights can be handled. The freight terminal has a gross floor area of ​​3850 meters and a freight capacity of up to 30,000 tons per year; In the building there is, among other things, a quarantine station for animals. The airport also has three hangars for normal air traffic and three hangars for general aviation.

Until the end of 2007, the airport had two runways , the northern one was 2,710 meters long, the southern 3000 meters. Both tracks are 45 meters wide. In the course of construction work for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the northern runway was partially demolished to make room for the extension of Autobahn 113, which was built in spring 2008. The southern runway had previously been extended to 3600 meters as the future northern runway for the new airport.

The airport also has its own airport fire brigade and an instrument landing system for both landing directions, approved up to all-weather flight operating level CAT IIIb, which enables flight movements in almost any weather condition.

use

Airbus A320-200 of Aeroflot during pushback from the terminal L

For the airport company, Berlin-Schönefeld Airport has been of great importance as a basis for charter flights since the 1990s . Until the rise of cheap flights , which in 2007 made up around 80 percent of the airport's total air traffic, charter flights made up the largest proportion of all flights. The International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) has been held at the airport every two years since 1992 . The airport is also used for general aviation . There is a Lufthansa simulator center in the vicinity .

The German Red Cross (DRK) has been operating a logistics center for disaster relief at home and abroad on the airport site since 2007 . Auxiliary material that is always ready for use is stored on 4000 m². Aid modules (so-called “ Emergency Response Units ” - ERU) can be deployed to any part of the world via the airport within 72 hours. Special vehicles, for example for communication and guidance in the event of major incidents in Germany, are also available here (so-called “federal reserve” of the DRK).

Traffic figures

The number of passengers at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport is growing rapidly. In 2003 1.7 million passengers were handled, in 2005 it was just over five million. In 2006 the airport passed the six million mark. In 2017, 12.9 million passengers were handled, an increase of over 10% compared to the previous year.

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport - traffic statistics

Year of operation	Passenger volume	Air freight [ t ]	Airmail [t]	Flight movements
1991	01,069,886	06,349	00.553	029,472
1992	01,446,933	04,686	01,153	028,723
1993	01,572,361	03,284	03,825	031,334
1994	01,804,490	05,823	03,895	036,185
1995	01,861,674	10,573	03,260	031,827
1996	01,766,452	13,716	01,479	031,649
1997	01,870,213	14,473	01,128	029,563
1998	01,876,209	12.111	00.811	030,711
1999	01,861,385	09,372	00.565	029,304
2000	02,133,919	09,604	00.505	033,947
2001	01,851,377	09,785	00.193	027,635
2002	01,615,171	11,099	00.202	025,755
2003	01,684,384	12,418	00.242	025,549
2004	03,325,348	12,546	03,229	039,420
2005	05,026,115	08,833	04,294	052,852
2006	06,026,228	03,720	04,373	058,647
2007	06,313,343	03,870	04,386	058,198
2008	06,638,162	04,399	04,415	068,771
2009	06,797,158	04,246	02,979	075,538
2010	07,297,911	04,907	04,751	076,595
2011	07,113,989	04,649	04,081	073,577
2012	07.097.274	05,206	01,125	071,758
2013	06.727.306	07,370	06,654	065,268
2014	07,292,517	07,827	07,229	070,325
2015	08,526,268	08,128	06,155	076,153
2016	11,652,922	09,056	35,149	096,562
2017	12,865,312	09,293	28,675	101,301
2018	12,725,937	13,229	20,533	105.955
2019	11,417,435	12,273	5,099	95.364

Busiest routes from SXF

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	Barcelona	233,399	▲ 1.31%	230,390	1,454	▲ 1.18%	1,437
2	London Stansted	226,368	▲ 4.09%	217,467	1,396	▲ 2.35%	1,364
3	Moscow Sheremetyevo	202.381	▼ -0.69%	203,790	1,845	▲ 1.93%	1,810
4th	Basel-Mulhouse	189,695	▼ -12.61%	217.061	1,300	▼ -10.34%	1,450
5	Budapest	171,887	▲ 46.41%	117.405	1,095	▲ 42.95%	766
6th	Manchester	166,333	▲ 8.49%	153.315	1,040	▲ 1.96%	1,020
7th	Copenhagen	163.182	▲ 31.1%	124,468	1,289	▲ 40.72%	916
8th	Cologne / Bonn	160.351	▼ -25.24%	214,488	1,347	▼ -24.37%	1,781
9	Amsterdam	159.263	▲ 3.79%	153,442	1,068	▲ 1.71%	1,050
10	Oslo-Gardermoen	157.043	▲ 7.55%	146.022	1,066	▲ 11.27%	958
11	Palma de Mallorca	143.995	▼ -13.77%	166.997	1,045	▲ 0.58%	1,039
12	London Gatwick	143,804	▼ -41.28%	244.914	964	▼ -42.07%	1,664
13	Tel Aviv	140.838	▼ -1.64%	143.183	910	▲ 0%	910
14th	Rome Ciampino	122,881	▼ -5.25%	129,683	729	▼ -5.08%	768
15th	Bergamo	120,815	▲ 0.93%	119,699	719	▲ 0.14%	718
16	Antalya	117,315	▲ 78.43%	65,749	711	▲ 87.11%	380
17th	Athens	103.993	▼ -5.55%	110.104	659	▼ -7.44%	712
18th	Madrid	100,625	▼ -1.57%	102.231	605	▼ -1.14%	612
19th	Geneva	97.283	▲ 3.58%	93,919	734	▲ 4.26%	704
20th	Dublin	96.032	▲ 3.78%	92,534	558	▲ 3.14%	541
21st	Thessaloniki	95,894	▼ -7.25%	103.392	621	▼ -9.61%	687
22nd	Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen	93,484	▲ 21.66%	76,843	618	▲ 27.69%	484
23	Malaga	93,296	▲ 3.23%	90.379	596	▲ 5.3%	566
24	London Luton	91.194	▼ -3.56%	94,561	718	▼ -1.51%	729
25th	Milan Malpensa	90,750	▼ -1.11%	91,771	645	▲ 0.16%	644
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

By country

Busiest routes by country from SXF

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	Great Britain	890.888	▼ -11.03%	1,001,378	6,057	▼ -12.36%	6,911
2	Spain	834.082	▼ -4.29%	871.461	5,363	▼ -0.87%	5,410
3	Italy	790.716	▼ -0.16%	792.022	5,175	▲ 1.37%	5.105
4th	Switzerland	332.840	▼ -9.78%	368.910	2,605	▼ -5.13%	2,746
5	France	276.394	▼ -25.63%	371,626	2,396	▼ -19.44%	2,974
6th	Russia	259.249	▲ 4.87%	247.204	2,575	▲ 10.85%	2,323
7th	Greece	254,569	▼ -5.45%	269.231	1,727	▼ -1.6%	1,755
8th	Turkey	234,962	▲ 57.2%	149.471	1,554	▲ 68.18%	924
9	Norway	196.095	▲ 8.16%	181,306	1,352	▲ 13.33%	1,193
10	Denmark	190.307	▲ 45.2%	131,068	1,532	▲ 52.29%	1.006
11	Hungary	171.902	▲ 45.65%	118.026	1,099	▲ 40.54%	782
12	Germany	170,643	▼ -37.01%	270.913	4,749	▲ 20.87%	3,929
13	Netherlands	159,350	▼ -10.61%	178.273	1.108	▼ -14.77%	1,300
14th	Israel	147.401	▲ 1.37%	145.407	962	▲ 3.44%	930
15th	Portugal	139,880	▲ 5.55%	132,522	839	▲ 6.47%	788
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

Incidents

• On 12 December 1986, a crashed Tupolev Tu-134A of Aeroflot ( air vehicle registration CCCP-65795) from Minsk landing at Schoenefeld Airport three kilometers northeast of it near Berlin-Bohnsdorf in a forest. Of the total of 82 people on board the Tupolev, 72 were killed, 10 passengers survived the crash, some seriously injured (see also Aeroflot flight 892 ) .
• On June 17, 1989, the pilots of an Ilyushin-62MK of Interflug (DDR-SEW) aborted the take-off process at Berlin-Schönefeld airport during the take-off attempt because of a blocked elevator. After the command for full reverse thrust of the engines to brake the flight engineer made a fatal mistake: instead of giving reverse thrust, he switched off the engines. The traffic machine shot over the runway, broke apart after a collision with several obstacles and caught fire. Of the 113 people on board, 21 died (see also Interflug flight 102 ) .
• On June 19, 2010, a Douglas DC-3 operated by Air Service Berlin (D-CXXX) suffered a loss of thrust in the left engine shortly after taking off for a sightseeing flight from Schönefeld Airport. The aircraft was irreparably damaged during an emergency landing in a field. 7 of the 28 inmates were injured, but there were no fatalities.

criticism

According to a customer survey by the flight portal eDreams , Schönefeld is the worst international airport in the world. Customers rated the shopping opportunities, dining options and waiting areas. The outdated structural condition and long distances to the parking lots are also criticized. A study by the monitoring service provider Webbosaurus from 2018 confirmed the ranking as the worst airport in Germany. The exposure to aircraft noise regularly causes complaints from residents.

See also

• List of commercial airports in Germany

literature

• Bernd Kuhlmann: Schönefeld near Berlin. 1 office, 1 airport and 11 train stations . Ges. Für Verkehrsppolitik und Eisenbahnwesen, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89218-038-5 . The book describes the history of Schönefeld, which - in the shadow of aviation - has always been shaped by strategic, political, propaganda and economic aspects.
• Horst Materna: Berlin-Schönefeld Airport and the end of the Interflug 1988–2000 , Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2016, ISBN 978-3-86777-685-1 ; with further volumes.
• Hans von Przychowski: false start or crash landing? Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Policy. Lost years - lost millions. The struggle for the BBI, 1990–2000, a timetable with comments . NoRa, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-935445-26-1 .
• Andreas Wendt, Frank Mangelsdorf (Hrsg.): Schönefeld Airport - then and now. Culturcon / Märkische Oderzeitung , 2012, ISBN 978-3-941092-89-1 .

Web links

Commons : Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
• Homepage
• Web presence of the opponents of expansion, Bürgerverein Brandenburg-Berlin e. V.
• Web presence of the development opponents airport-bbi.de
• History Schönefeld Airport ( Memento from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Information on mil-airfields.de
• Klaus Kurpjuweit: The planners didn't fly to Schönefeld for decades . ; In: Tagesspiegel from November 8, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin distance measuring point: According to Lemma Berlin , the point of the geographic location of Berlin corresponds to the location of the Berlin City Hall (Rotes Rathaus, May 28, 2012)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Traffic report Berlin-Schönefeld December. Berlin Brandenburg Airport, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH - Annual Report 2013. (PDF) FBB, July 4, 2014, accessed on June 21, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Location Information for EDDB. skyvector.com, accessed January 3, 2014 . 
5. ^ Association of German Airports : Passenger Numbers 2012. In: Tagesspiegel Online , accessed on January 13, 2013
6. ↑ It's a tremendous fraud . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1982 ( online ).
7. ^ West Berlin - Berlin-Schönefeld Airport
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