Berlin Schönefeld Airport
1934–2020 airport of Berlin, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Berlin Schönefeld Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeldⓘ) (formerly IATA: SXF, ICAO: EDDB, ETBS) was[1][2] the secondary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It was located 18 km (11 mi) southeast[3] of Berlin near the town of Schönefeld in the state of Brandenburg and bordered Berlin's southern boundary. It was the smaller of the two airports in Berlin, after Berlin Tegel Airport, and served as a base for easyJet and Ryanair. In 2017, the airport handled 12.9 million passengers by serving mainly European metropolitan and leisure destinations. In the same year, the travel portal eDreams ranked Berlin Schönefeld as the worst airport in the world after evaluating 65,000 airport reviews.[4] Schönefeld Airport was the major civil airport of East Germany (GDR) and the only airport of the former East Berlin.
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Airport type | Defunct | ||||||||||
Operator | Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH | ||||||||||
Serves | Berlin | ||||||||||
Location | Schönefeld | ||||||||||
Opened | 15 October 1934 (1934-10-15) | ||||||||||
Closed | 25 October 2020 (2020-10-25)[1][2] | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 157 ft / 48 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 52°22′43″N 013°31′14″E | ||||||||||
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On 25 October 2020 the Schönefeld name and IATA code ceased to exist,[1][2] marking its closure as an independent airport, with large parts of its infrastructure being incorporated into the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (IATA: BER, ICAO: EDDB) as its Terminal 5.[5][6][7] However by November 2022, the refurbished Terminal 5 had been closed for good without being put in operation.[8]