Tegel International Airport

Tegel International Airport is an airport in Berlin, Germany. It lies in the northwestern outskirts of the city. Tegel was Its IATA Airport Code is TXL. Tegel is referred to as the "Frequent Flyer Airport". Tegel has the most scheduled flights of the three Berlin airports.

During the Berlin Airlift in 1948 the longest runway in Europe (2.400 m) was built in Tegel. Subsequently, especially after new, modern facilities were built in the 1970s, Tegel began to replace Tempelhof International Airport as the main hub of West Berlin, as Tempelhof, being situated downtown, was too noisy and its runways were too short. During the Cold War, because of the special status of West Berlin, air traffic was restricted to Allied airlines (especially Air France, Pan American World Airways and British Airways).

When Schönefeld International Airport has become Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, Tegel will close about six months after operations will begin at BBI (sometime in 2007).

The following airlines fly to Tegel International Airport:

• Aero Lloyd
• Air Adriatic
• Air Baltic
• Air Berlin
• Air Dolomiti
• Air France
• Air Malta
• Alitalia
• Atlasjet
• Austrian Airlines
• British Airways
• British Airways Citiexpress
• Bulgarian Air Charter
• Cimber Air
• Croatia Airlines
• CSA Czech Airlines
• Deutsche BA
• Duo Airways
• Eurowings
• Finnair
• Freebird Airlines
• Germania Airlines
• Germania Express
• Germanwings
• Hamburg International
• Hapag-Lloyd
• Hapag-Lloyd Express
• Iberia Airlines
• Interairlines
• Iranair
• KLM
• Lithuanian Airlines
• LOT Polish
• LTU International
• Lufthansa
• MALEV Hungarian
• MIAT Mongolian
• MNG Airlines
• Nouvelair Tunisie
• Olympic Airways
• Onur Air
• Pegasus Airlines
• Scandinavian Airlines System
• TAROM
• Thomas Cook Airlines
• Tunisair
• Turkish Airlines
• Ukraine International
• Volare Airlines

External links

• Tegel International Airport Homepage