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On 25 October 2020, Schönefeld Airport became Terminal 5 of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. [17] [2] The IATA code SXF was discontinued on this day. [1] Schönefeld's terminal buildings were intended to be used until the inauguration of a planned Terminal 3 by 2030 [18] with Ryanair as their primary tenant. [19]
Schönefeld Airport, showing the current and former runways as well as the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, and city and state boundary. Berlin Schönefeld Airport (IATA: SXF, ICAO: EDDB), founded in 1934, the airport for East Berlin during the Cold War and closed in 2020, the old terminal and one of the runways became part of Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
A view of the apron of Berlin Schönefeld Airport (1990) Map showing the infrastructure of the Schönefeld area and the relationship between the new and old airports. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and following German reunification in 1990, Berlin once again became the German federal capital; leaders made plans to recognise the city's increased importance by constructing a large ...
The airport opened in October 2020 after extensive delays and cost overruns, and replaced Tegel Airport (TXL) and Schönefeld Airport (SXF) as the single commercial airport of Berlin, integrating the existing facilities at Schönefeld Airport. [26] Brandenburg Airport had an initial capacity of around 35 million passengers per year.
The head office of Private Wings is located in the General Aviation Terminal (Allgemeine Luftfahrt) on the property of Schönefeld Airport. [7] [8] [9] Before its disestablishment, the East German airline company Interflug had its head office on the grounds of the airport. [10] Bremenfly also had its head office in Schönefeld. [11]
Since the opening of BER, it serves BER Airport station instead. [6] On 25 October 2020, the station was renamed to "Flughafen BER – Terminal 5" [7] to reflect the re-development of Schönefeld Airport into an operational terminal of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. A few days later all train services except the S-Bahn switched to the new Terminal ...
When plans for a new Berlin Airport were made following German reunification, Berlin Brandenburg Flughafen Holding GmbH (BBF) was founded on 2 May 1991. [2] In a privatisation attempt, Hochtief was considered a suitable future owner and operator of the proposed airport and in 1998 negotiations commenced about the conditions under which Hochtief would acquire BBF. [3]
In January 2018, it was disclosed that the airport head is simultaneously earning a monthly wage and a retirement pension as a former state secretary of the state of Berlin, a situation described as a "scandal" and potentially illegal. [142] The airport was scheduled to open in 2020 with a total cost exceeding €7 billion.