Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens after years of delay

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schönefeld, south of Berlin, opened on 31 October 2020 after roughly 13 years of delay, with total costs of about EUR 7.3 billion. Following the last flight out of Tegel on 8 November 2020, Berlin's air traffic was fully consolidated at BER. Capacity stands at around 36 million passengers per year (Terminals 1 and 2 combined), with the runways theoretically supporting over 50 million.