Airport Berlin Brandenburg International
General Information
Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, located in (or close to) Berlin/Schönefeld has 2 runways, of which the longest is 9843 feet (3000 metres) long. The geographic coordinates of this airport are 52 degrees, 22 minutes, 48 seconds north (52.380001) and 13 degrees, 31 minutes, 21 seconds east (13.522500). Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is 157 feet (48 m) above sea level.
Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, near Berlin/Schönefeld, Germany, is in is in the time zone UTC+1 (DST+2). The local time there now is therefore 18:23.
Airport codes
The airport is referred to by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) using the airport code SXF. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) uses EDDB when referring to Berlin Brandenburg International Airport
We are paving the way for the future!
Over the next few years, Schoenefeld Airport will expand to become Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI), the new airport for the German capital.
The Berlin-Brandenburg region currently has three airports. Starting in 2011, all air traffic for the region will pass through Schoenefeld Airport, southeast of the city. This will make it possible to close Berlin's inner-city airports, Tegel and Tempelhof.
When BBI opens its doors, the capital city region will offer business travellers, tourists, and companies a high-tech airport with ideal connections, international flights, direct motorway access, and a rail station under the main terminal. It will take only 20 minutes for the airport shuttle to travel the 20-kilometre stretch of track into the Berlin city centre. In addition to making air travel more attractive, BBI will improve life in the region. By closing Tegel and Tempelhof, hundreds of thousands of Berlin and Brandenburg residents will no longer have to live with aircraft noise
Prospects
The aerospace industry is, along with the high-tech and biotech sectors, one of the leading growth industries in the globally networked world. Economists have been predicting for years that, despite events like the Gulf War or the attacks of 11 September 2001, there will be long-term growth until 2030. With the increase of traffic, the existing Berlin airport system of Schoenefeld, Tegel and Tempelhof will not be able to handle capacity much longer. The solution - closure of Tegel and Tempelhof, expansion of Schoenefeld (initial capacity: approx. 22 million passengers). The region will profit from new companies setting up here and from new jobs.
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Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport
is the tentative name of a new airport, that will use some of the infrastructure of the existing Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport (Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld) in Schönefeld, Germany, located near Berlin and is scheduled for completion in 2011. An alternative name could be Hauptstadt-Airport BBI . After a 10-year administrative court battle, on 16 March 2006 the federal administrative court in Leipzig gave the go-ahead for the project by ruling in favour of Berlin against challenges by residents and municipalities near the future airport. Schönefeld is located on the border between Berlin and Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin; the name reflects that the airport will serve both.
Berlin-Brandenburg International (BBI) will replace the three airports currently serving Berlin. The existing airport in Schönefeld will be greatly expanded to the south from its current state to allow this. In fact, the new airport will only have the current southern Runway (the new designated northern Runway) in common with the existing airport. Due to noise abatement regulations flights between midnight and 5 am will remain banned.
Planning and construction
The primary reason for the construction of a new airport is to increase the airport capacity for the Berlin-Brandenburg region as two of the three existing airports are operating well beyond their maximum planned capacity. The resolution for the spatial planning of the airport was made 13 August 2004.
The resolution calls for an expansion of the existing airport Schönefeld into a single airport that will replace the three currently existing airports in and around Berlin. Indeed the closure of Tempelhof International Airport and Berlin-Tegel International Airport are set as a prerequisite for opening Berlin-Brandenburg International to traffic.
In 2007 a total of 20 million passengers have used the three existing airports. The most congested airport is Tegel, which has a planed capacity for 9,5 million, but was handling over 13 million passengers in 2007.[5] The first phase of BBI is scheduled to open in late 2011 and will have an initial capacity for 25 million passengers. Additional Terminals have already been incorporated into the plans and the final capacity after completion of all expansions is given as 45 million passenger per year.
Construction work began on 5. September 2006. The initial projects were the access roads for the construction site and extension of the future northern runway. (This being the only physical feature BBI will share with the existing Schönefeld airport.) In 2007 work was started on the railway tunnel that will run underneath the airfield and the completion of the A 113 Autobahn which will connect the new terminals to the Autobahn network. The construction work for the new terminal is scheduled to begin in 2008 and by 2010 the airport fire brigade will move into newly build facilities. The new airport is scheduled to open for traffic in late October 2011.The inhabitants of the villages Diepensee (population 335) and Selchow (population 35) were resettled to either Königs Wusterhausen or Groß Ziethen, as the two villages were inside the area of the future airport.Both the expansion of the airport into BBI as well as the quality of the connection to the railway network are subject of public debate. The Bürgerverein Brandenburg-Berlin e.V. is an organization that represents local residents who protest against an expansion of air traffic to and from the south of Berlin. Also, experts for traffic and environmental issues criticize both that the S-Bahn is forced into making a several mile long detour to the west before reaching the station underneath the new terminal and the late completion dates for the connections to the regional and intercity networks.
