Airport Berlin Schönefeld
Airport Berlin Schönefeld
Schoenefeld Airport
Telephone - +49 180 5000 186
The airport is located twenty km from the city center. An information desk is located in Terminal A. There are a wide range of shopping facilities and a range of bars and restaurants in the airport.
Taxi
There are metered taxis available outside each of the terminals. It takes about forty minutes to the city center and costs about €28-35.
Bus
A bus service operates from outside each of the terminals to Berlin.
Train
The Airport Express train stops at a station close to the airport, which is connected by a shuttle bus. It runs every thirty minutes from 5 am to 11 pm and takes thirty minutes. Cost €2. All railway stations in Berlin are linked by tramline 7. Not all trains are marked Airport Express as the service isn’t dedicated to the airport.
Road
The airport is easily reached from Berlin and well signposted. All motorways link up with Berlin’s ring road.
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Airport Schoenefeld
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Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld (help·info)) (IATA: SXF, ICAO: EDDB) is an international airport located in the town of Schönefeld in Brandenburg, adjacent to Berlin's southern border. It is referred to as "The Holiday Airport", as it has mostly international charter flights. Schönefeld was once the major civil airport of East Germany, and the only airport serving East Berlin.
It lies outside the city, unlike the other two Berlin airports, Berlin-Tegel International Airport and Tempelhof International Airport; in contrast to those airports, noise pollution is not much of an issue at Schönefeld.
Schönefeld will be transformed into Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport in 2011. In return, both Tempelhof and Tegel will close. In 2006, the airport served 6,059,343 passengers; after conversion to BBI, up to 45 million passengers could be handled
History
Berlin-Schönefeld airport was founded on 15 October 1934, with the construction of the Henschel aircraft plant (MLG) in Schönefeld. Up until the end of the Second World War over 14,000 airplanes were built there. On 22 April 1945 MLG was occupied by Soviet troops. The equipment for aircraft construction was either dismantled or blown up. Later, up until 1947, railways were repaired and agricultural machinery was built and repaired on the site. In 1946 Soviet air forces moved from Johannisthal to Schönefeld, and Aeroflot started operating from the airport. In 1947 the Soviet military administration of Germany approved the construction of a civilian airport at the site in SMAD (instruction NR. 93).
Following World War II, Tempelhof was used as a U.S. Air Force base, while the Soviet air force relocated to Schönefeld during 1946. Tempelhof was returned to civil administration in 1951, Schönefeld in 1954 and Tegel in 1960. Tegel and Schönefeld served the civilian populations of West Berlin and East Berlin, respectively.
Between 1947 and 1990 Schönefeld airport was renamed several times and became the central airport of the GDR. Aeroflot Tu-144 aircraft began operating from the airport in the 1970s. A stipulation of the Four Powers Agreements on the status of Berlin following World War II was a ban on air traffic by German air carriers to Berlin - only American, British, French or Soviet airlines could fly to the city. But because of Berlin-Schönefeld's location outside of the city boundaries of Berlin, this restriction did not apply. Thus, German aircraft (usually of the GDR airline Interflug, formerly German Lufthansa of the GDR) could take off and land from Schönefeld, which was not the case at Tegel and Tempelhof airports. With the reunification of Germany and Berlin, Tegel and Tempelhof could once again receive flights by German airlines, such as Lufthansa, as well.
Map of the planed Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport and existing airport Schönefeld.
Following German reunification in 1990, the efficacy of operating three separate airports became increasingly prohibitive, leading the Berlin City Council to pursue a single airport that would be more efficient and would decrease the noise pollution especially from the two centrally located airports within the city. In addition, the cumulative capacity of Berlin's three airports was 15.5 million in late 2003, a measure that would only be needed after 2010, according to current prognoses. Both Tempelhof and Tegel are surrounded by urban development and cannot expand. A single new airport would increase the capacity to at least 25 million initially, which would be expanded to 45 million before 2030. This would enable Berlin to accommodate a number of flights similar in magnitude to that of airports serving other European capitals, like London's Heathrow or Paris' Charles De Gaulle.
The new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI) is currently under construction immediately south of Schönefeld Airport and is scheduled for completion in 2011. 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. As Schönefeld is located in Brandenburg, the Bundesland (federal state) surrounding Berlin, the name reflects that the new airport will serve both. BBI will incorporate the south runway of Schönefeld as a common feature. However most of the old airport, including the terminal and apron areas, is intended to undergo a complete urban redevelopment after the new airport opens
Airlines at this Airport
Terminal A Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo) Air Algérie (Algiers [seasonal]) Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin) Astraeus (Reykjavik-Keflavik) Belavia (Minsk) Blue Air (Bucharest-Băneasa) Blue Wings (Antalya) Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split) EgyptAir (Cairo) Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos) Iceland Express (Reykjavik-Keflavik) Icelandair (Reykjavik-Keflavik) MAT Macedonian Airlines (Skopje) Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger) Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum) Rossiya (Saint Petersburg) Ryanair (Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh [begins 24 September], Hahn, London-Stansted, Milan-Bergamo [begins October 27], Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta) Sky Airlines (Antalya) Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus, Vienna) Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
Terminal B easyJet (Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Heraklion [ends September 27], Ibiza [ends September 27], Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pisa [seasonal], Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Venice)
Terminal C Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv) El Al (Tel Aviv) Israir (Tel Aviv) Sun d'Or International Airlines (Tel Aviv)
Terminal D Air Via (Bourgas, Varna) seasonal Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna) seasonal Condor (Antalya, Bourgas, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Las Palmas, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South, Venice-Marco Polo) Germanwings (Bucharest-Băneasa, Burgas, Cologne/Bonn, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Moscow-Vnukovo, Munich, Mykonos, Saint Petersburg, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Varna, Zagreb, Zweibrücken) SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir)
Cargo airlines Farnair Hungary OCA International
