Almost ten million passengers at BER last year


Last year, more than 9.9 million passengers traveled through the capital’s airport BER. That was almost 900,000 passengers more than in the previous year, as announced by the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Company (FBB). “The first half of the year was weak,” it said. From July onwards, more than a million passengers were counted each month. The month with the most travel was therefore October, with almost 1.7 million passengers. The rush at the airport in the capital region was particularly high during the autumn holidays.

Personnel bottlenecks and more complex check-in processes due to the Corona crisis had led to long waiting times at the counters and in the arriving planes. The new FBB boss, Aletta von Massenbach, then announced that she would also open the second runway at BER for flight operations and put the second newly built Terminal T2 into operation in the spring of this year.

The passenger numbers of the past year are still far from the level before the Corona crisis. In 2019, around 36 million people traveled via the then two Berlin airports Tegel and Schönefeld.

The operators assume that BER will not reach this level again until 2025. For this year the company is expecting around 17 million passengers and thus almost half. This emerges from a presentation that the airport company held a few weeks ago in a budget subcommittee in the Brandenburg state parliament.


(tiw)

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