Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport [CLOSED]

Per Wikipedia

🔗 Thu, 06 May 2021
— @animebirder at Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport, Germany Reply

TXL saw its last flight on 8 November 2020 after all traffic had been transferred gradually to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport until this date. It has been legally decommissioned as an airfield after a mandatory transitional period on 4 May 2021. All government flights were also relocated to the new airport with the exception of helicopter operations which will stay at a separate area on the northern side of Tegel Airport until 2029.

Still open (2019)

🔗 Fri, 04 Oct 2019
— @david at Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport, Germany Reply

If flew in again this spring. Yes, it's still here. The airport is a bit shabby and run-down, but you can't beat it for convenience—just a quick short distance away from the centre of the city.

Ground transportation

🔗 Sat, 19 Jul 2014
— @david at Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport, Germany Reply

I landed at Tegel this week, so clearly it's still open, despite the comment I left 7 1/2 years ago. As the Wikipedia article mentions, walking distances are extremely short — in less than 5 minutes, I was off the plane and in a cab.

A taxi to my hotel near the Heinrich-Heine Straße U-Bahn station was €35, which is a bit pricey. I have since discovered that there is an express bus "TXL" that takes 41 minutes from Alexanderplatz to Tegel (or vice versa). Details here: http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/17131/name/JetExpressBus+TXL.html

Scheduled to close

🔗 Sat, 28 Jul 2007
— @david at Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport, Germany Reply

Along with Berlin-Tempelhof (THF), Tegel is scheduled to be replaced by an expanded Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF -- to be renamed "Berlin-Brandenburg International" around 2011). Tegel and Tempelhof are actually in Berlin, while Schönefeld is further out of town, in the former East Germany.