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Referendum to keep Tegel Airport open successful first step

Airport Tegel - Photo: T.Bortels/nuBerlin.com

The Referendum “Berlin braucht Tegel” that aims at keeping the Airport Tegel open for operation obviously just managed to collect the necessary number of signatures. Almost 200.000 Berliners singed the petition that would make such a referendum possible. Originally a law would force Airport Tegel to close once the new Berlin Airport BER would be […]

Berlin & Brandenburg Airports: again more passengers, more traffic

In 2016 both airports Berlin Tegel and Schönefeld saw more a rise in passenger numbers and goods shipped to and from those airports. The gross numbers for both airports are like this: Passengers: 32.873.386 in 2016 compared to 29.507.852 in 2015 that’s a 11.4% rise. Planes taking off and landing: 269.870 in 2016 compared to […]