Tegel International Airport

As of now, Tegel International Airport (TXL) is Berlin’s biggest airport, serving well over 10 million travelers annually. Tegel International Airport is the main base to Lufthansa and Air Berlin, which account for up to a third of the airport’s flights.

This airport is one of the oldest in the world, having been built just after the end of the Second World War in 1948. Due to the restrictions imposed on Western Berlin at the time, it was not until 1960 that regular commercial flights on Tegel International Airport were commenced by Air France and other operators soon followed suit. Today, Tegel International Airport receives flights from many operators from various parts of the world, connecting Berlin to the rest of the world.

Tegel International Airport has 4 terminals, quite ingeniously packaged in a relatively small area. Air Berlin is the biggest operator in Tegel International Airport – running both domestic and international flights –  with domestic flights connecting Berlin to other German cities like Cologne, Frankfurt and Munich. Air Berlin also operates international flights, connecting Berlin Paris-Orly, Santa Cruz, Zurich and Sharm El Sheikh – among others.

Tegel has 4 terminals – A, B, C, and D. On Tegels’s terminal A is Qatar airways (connecting Berlin to Doha), KLM and Cityhopper (connecting Berlin to Amsterdan), Iberia Airlines (connecting Berlin to Madrid) and British Airways (connecting Berlin to London through its hub, Heathrow Airport).

Air France also operates from Tegel’s terminal A (dispatching flights to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris), as does Delta Air Lines (connecting Berlin to New York’s John F Kennedy airport). Also operating from Tegel’s terminal A are flights by Turkish Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines and Luxair.

Terminal B is used by other airlines – including Air Berlin, KD Avia, Sky Airlines and Germania. Terminal C, which was built as a temporary measure to ease congestion, hosts a mixture of domestic and international flights by Air Berlin, Meridiana and InterSky. Terminal D hosts International flights run by Olympic Airlines, Jet Air, Brussels Airlines Czech Airlines.