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Tegel International Airport
Tegel International Airport is an airport in Berlin, Germany. It lies in the northwestern outskirts of the city near the borough of Tegel. Its IATA airport code is TXL, and its ICAO airport code is EDDT. 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).
According to a decade-old plan to replace the three current airports near Berlin with one, as Schönefeld International Airport has become Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, Tegel will close about six months after operations will begin at BBI (planned 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
- Delta Air Lines Starting May 2, 2005
- 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
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
- MIAT Mongolian
- MNG Airlines
- Nouvelair Tunisie
- Olympic Airlines
- Onur Air
- Pegasus Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- TAROM
- Thomas Cook Airlines
- Tunisair
- Turkish Airlines
- Ukraine International
- Volare Airlines
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