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Tegel Airport
Telephone - +49 180 500 0186
The airport is located 8km northwest of Berlin city center. There are good shopping and eating facilities, as well as a number of bars.
Taxi - Taxis are available at the taxi rank outside the terminal building. It takes about thirty minutes to reach the city center and costs about €15.
Bus - Jet Express Bus numbers 128, 109, and X9 run to underground stations in Berlin. They run every ten to fifteen minutes from about 5:30 am to about 11 pm, and take about forty minutes to reach the city center. There is also a service that runs to city center destinations, including Unter den Linten and Franzosische Strasse. Information is available from the BVG office in the main hall of the terminal.
Road
The airport is connected to the Berlin city motorway. The A100 or the A111 north both have well signposted exits to the airport.
Car Rental
It is easy to rent a car for use in Germany and collect it at either of these two airports. All the major companies have desks for car hire collection and cars can be prebooked over the internet.
BVG (Berlin Transport)
Telephone - +49 30 19449
General information
Berlin International Airport, located in (or close to) Berlin/Tegel has 2 runways, of which the longest is 9918 feet (3023 metres) long. The geographic coordinates of this airport are 52 degrees, 33 minutes, 35 seconds north (52.559683) and 13 degrees, 17 minutes, 16 seconds east (13.287717). Berlin International Airport is 122 feet (37 m) above sea level.
Berlin International Airport, near Berlin/Tegel, Germany, is in is in the time zone UTC+1 (DST+2). The local time there now is therefore 18:22.
Airport codes
The airport is referred to by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) using the airport code TXL. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) uses EDDT when referring to Berlin International Airport
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History
Cold War era
During the Berlin Airlift in 1948 what was then the longest runway in Europe (2,428 m) was built at Tegel.
West Berlin's special political status during the Cold War era (8 May 1945 - 2 October 1990) meant that all air traffic to and from the Western half of Germany's divided former and present capital was restricted to the airlines of the three Western victorious powers of World War II, i.e. only those headquartered in the US, UK and France. In addition, all flightdeck crew, i.e. pilots, flight engineers and navigators, flying aircraft into and out of West Berlin through the Allied air corridors were required to hold American, British or French passports.
Air France was the first airline to commence regular commercial operations at Tegel on 2 January 1960. The airline decided to transfer its operations from Tempelhof Airport to Tegel because the former airport's runways were too short to handle first generation jet aircraft such as the Aérospatiale Caravelle, Boeing 707, De Havilland Comet and Douglas DC-8 without payload or range restrictions.
Pan Am became the second airline to commence year-round, scheduled operations at Tegel Airport when it launched a thrice-weekly service from New York JFK in May 1964.
This service was operated with Boeing 707s or Douglas DC-8s which could not operate from Tempelhof, the airline's West Berlin base at the time, with a viable payload. The service routed either through Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland or Shannon, Ireland. It ceased in October 1971.[4]
From April 1968 onwards all non-scheduled services, i.e. primarily the rapidly growing number of inclusive tour (IT) charter flights that several wholly privately owned, Independent UK airlines as well as a number of US supplemental carriers had operated from Tempelhof since the early 1960s under contract to West Berlin's leading package tour operators, were concentrated at Tegel to alleviate increasing congestion at the former airport and to make better use of the latter. (At the time Tegel was underutilised.)[5] A new passenger handling facility exclusively dedicated to charter airline passengers was opened to accommodate the additional traffic.[5] Both this facility (a wooden shed) and the original terminal used by Air France's and Pan Am's scheduled passengers (a pre-fabricated shed) were located at the airport's north side.[5] Following the transfer of all charter traffic to Tegel, Channel Airways, Dan-Air Services, Laker Airways and Modern Air Transport began stationing several of their aircraft at the airport.[5] Channel Airways' collapse in early 1972 provided the impetus for Dan-Air to take over the failed carrier's charter contracts and to expand its own operations at Tegel.[6] (Dan-Air, one of Britain's foremost wholly privately owned, Independent airlines during the 1970s and '80s, eventually became the third-biggest operator at Tegel Airport, ahead of Air France. In addition to firmly establishing itself as the airport's and West Berlin's leading charter airline, it also operated scheduled services linking Tegel with Amsterdam Schiphol, Saarbrücken and London Gatwick, its main operational base. By the time that airline was taken over by British Airways at the end of October 1992, it had served Tegel Airport for a quarter of a century.[7][8]) Modern Air's departure in October 1974 coincided with Aeroamerica's arrival.[9] That carrier's departure following the end of the 1979 summer season was followed by Air Berlin USA's arrival.[10] Laker Airways' decision to replace its Tegel-based BAC One-Eleven fleet with one of its newly acquired Airbus A300 B4 widebodies from the start of the 1981 summer season resulted in Monarch Airlines taking over that airline's long-standing charter contract with Flug Union Berlin, at the time West Berlin's second-largest tour operator (after Berliner Flug Ring).[11][12] (Several years later, Monarch Airlines provided the aircraft as well as the flightdeck crew and maintenance support for EuroBerlin France, a Tegel-based scheduled airline headquartered in Paris, France. EuroBerlin was jointly owned by Air France and Lufthansa, with the former holding a 51% majority stake, thereby making it a French legal entity and enabling it to conduct commercial airline operations at West Berlin.[13])
Other airlines operating regular services to/from Tegel Airport during the Cold War era included:Court Line Aviation - a major Independent British airline of the early 1970s that served Berlin Tegel with a series of regular charter flights from its base at London Luton Airport and Paris Le Bourget Airport between 1970 and March 1974 under contract to West Berlin's students union.[14] Touraine Air Transport - a French regional airline serving Berlin Tegel from Saarbrücken several times a day on a year-round basis from 1978 until early 1984.[15] Berlin Regional UK - a Berlin-based UK regional airline founded in 1986 by a former British Airways general manager for that airline's Berlin operation to begin domestic and international regional scheduled services to destinations not served by any of West Berlin's contemporary scheduled operators from April 1987, utilising British Aerospace Jetstream commuter turboprop planes.[16][17][18] TWA - the other major US flag carrier of that era served both Brussels (from August 2, 1987 [19][20]) and Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport from Berlin Tegel twice daily (from 1989 [21]). Pan Am Express - the regional commuter arm of Pan Am began operating from Berlin Tegel in November 1987 with two Avions de Transport Régional ATR-42 commuter turboprops. It operated year-round scheduled services to secondary and tertiary destinations that could not be viably served with Pan Am's Tegel-based "mainline" fleet of Boeing 727-200 "Advanced" and Airbus A310s. These included Basle, Bremen, Dortmund, Hanover, Innsbruck, Kassel, Kiel, Milan, Salzburg, Stockholm and Vienna. In addition, Pan Am Express also helped Pan Am increase the number of flights on some of the other scheduled routes it used to serve from Berlin such as Tegel-Zürich by operating additional off-peak frequencies.[18] In addition to the aforementioned airlines, a host of others - mainly British Independents and US supplementals - were frequent visitors to Berlin Tegel, especially during the early 1970s. These included Britannia Airways, British Airtours, British United, Caledonian, Caledonian/BUA / British Caledonian, Capitol International Airways, Overseas National Airways, Saturn Airways, Trans International Airlines, Transamerica Airlines and World Airways. Furthermore, during the early '70s both Pan Am and TWA used to operate regular "Advanced Booking Charter (ABC)" flights from Tegel to the USA as well. During that period the airport scene at Berlin Tegel could be very colourful, with Air France Caravelles, the UK Independents' BAC One-Elevens, De Havilland Comets and Hawker Siddeley Tridents as well as the US supplementals' Boeing 707s, Convair "Coronados" and Douglas DC-8s congregating on its ramp. During 1974 alone 22 airlines were operating at Tegel Airport.[22]
The airport's current main, hexagonally shaped terminal building, which is located at the airport's south side, became operational on 1 November 1974. A British Airways Lockheed L-1011 "Tristar" 1, a Laker Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, a Pan Am Boeing 747-100 and an Air France Airbus A300 B2 were among the widebodied aircraft specially flown in on that day for the inauguration of the new terminal building.[22] Dan-Air operated the first commercial flight to arrive at the airport's new terminal at 06.00 a.m. local time with a BAC One-Eleven that was in-bound from Tenerife.[22]
Following Pan Am's and British Airways' move from Tempelhof to Tegel on 1 September 1975, the latter replaced Tempelhof as the main airport of West Berlin.[
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