Berlin-Tegel International Airport

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Berlin International Airport in Tegel Flughafen Berlin-Tegel
Image:Berlin-Tegel from the air.jpg
IATA: TXL - ICAO: EDDT
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Berlin Airports</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Berlin</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		121 ft (39 m)
Coordinates		52°33′40″N, 13°17′22″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08L/26R	9,918	3,023	Paved
08R/26L	7,953	2,424	Paved

Berlin International Airport in Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" (IATA: TXL, ICAO: EDDT) (often shortened to Tegel) is an airport in Berlin, Germany. It lies in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf. Tegel is referred to as the "Frequent Flyer Airport". Tegel has the most scheduled flights of the three airports serving Berlin. In 2003, it served 11.1 million passengers.

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During the Berlin Airlift in 1948, the longest runway in Europe (2,400 m) was built at Tegel. Modern facilities were built in the 1970s, and Tegel began to replace Tempelhof International Airport as the main airport of West Berlin. Tempelhof, surrounded by urban development, was too noisy and its runways were too short for modern jumbo jets. During the Cold War, because of the special status of West Berlin, air traffic was restricted to Allied airlines (particularly Air France, Pan American World Airways and British Airways).

Tegel Airport is notable for its hexagonal terminal building around an open square, which makes for walking distances as short as 100 ft. from any airplane, through luggage and customs, to taxi or bus.

[edit] Airlines

Image:Terminalarea berlin tegel.gif Image:Lage der Flughäfen in Berlin.png The following airlines fly to Tegel International Airport:

airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barcelona, Catania, Copenhagen, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Helsinki, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez, Kos, Las Palmas, London-Stansted, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Milan-Bergamo, Monastir, Mykonos, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Samos, Sharm El-Sheikh, Santa Cruz de la Palma, St. Petersburg [starts December 18, 2006], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Westerland/Sylt, Vienna, Zürich)
Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca (starts in summer 07)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Air Italy (Varna, Verona(starts summer 07)
Air Malta (Hamburg, Malta)
Air One (Milan-Linate, Bologna(starts summer 07)
Air Via (Burgas, Varna)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
Atlas Blue (Agadir)
Atlasjet (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Erzurum, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
Blue1 (Helsinki)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham, Manchester)
Bulgaria Air (Burgas, Sofia, Varna)
Bulgarian Air Charter (Burgas, Varna)
Clickair (Barcelona)
Condor Airlines (Antalya, Arrecife, Chania, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Jerez, Las Palmas, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife South)
Continental Airlines (Newark)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK)
dba (Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
Estonian Air (Tallinn)
Finnair (Helsinki)
Free Bird Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Hamburg International (Larnaca)
Hapagfly (Antalya, Arrecife, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Monastir, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini, Tel Aviv, Tenerife South)
Hemus Air (Sofia)
HLX.com (Cologne/Bonn, Klagenfurt, Palermo, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Venice)
Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
Inter Airlines (Antalya)
Jat Airways (Belgrade)
KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
LTU International (Constanta, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg)
Lufthansa (Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart, Vienna, Zürich)
Luxair (Luxembourg)
MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Saarmelleek/Balaton)
MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Ulan Baatar)
Nouvelair (Monastir)
Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Antalya)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
Sky Airlines (Antalya)
SunExpress (Antalya, Izmir)
Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
TAROM (Bucharest(starting summer 07)
transavia.com (Amsterdam)
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo]
Tunisair (Monastir)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil, Simferopol)