Berlin Tegel Airport

Berlin Tegel Airport Flughafen Tegel
IATA: TXL ICAO: EDDT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH
Serves	Berlin, Germany
Hub for	Air Berlin Eurowings
Elevation AMSL	122 ft / 37 m
Coordinates	52°33′35″N 013°17′16″E / 52.55972°N 13.28778°E / 52.55972; 13.28778Coordinates: 52°33′35″N 013°17′16″E / 52.55972°N 13.28778°E / 52.55972; 13.28778
Website	berlin-airport.de
Map
TXL Location within Berlin
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08L/26R 3,023 9,918 Asphalt 08R/26L 2,428 7,966 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 21,253,959 Passenger change 15–16 1.2% Aircraft movements 185,500 Movements change 15–16 0.6%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe German AIP at EUROCONTROL

Passengers	21,253,959
Passenger change 15–16	1.2%
Aircraft movements	185,500
Movements change 15–16	0.6%

Berlin Tegel Airport (German: Flughafen Tegel "Otto Lilienthal") (IATA: TXL, ICAO: EDDT) is the main international airport of Berlin, the federal capital of Germany. It has served formerly West Berlin and ranks ahead of the smaller Berlin Schönefeld Airport. The airport is christened after Otto Lilienthal and the fourth busiest airport in Germany with just over 20.7 million passengers in 2014. The airport is a hub for Air Berlin and serves as a base for Germanwings. It features flights to several European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as some intercontinental routes.

It is situated in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf, 8 km (5.0 mi) northwest of the city centre of Berlin. Tegel Airport is notable for its hexagonal main terminal building around an open square, which makes walking distances as short as 30 m (98 ft) from the aircraft to the terminal exit. The airport is due to close when the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens, which is scheduled to be sometime during 2018, as of January 2017.

The area of today's airport originally was part of Jungfernheide forest, which served as a hunting ground for the Prussian nobility. During the 19th century, it was used as an artillery firing range. Aviation history dates back to the early 20th century, when the Prussian airship battalion was based there and the area became known as Luftschiffhafen Reinickendorf. In 1906, a hangar was built for testing of Groß-Basenach and Parseval type airships.