Berlin Brandenburg Airport closes Terminal 5 for a minimum of one year.

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On February 23, Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH will close Terminal 5 of BER (formerly Schönefeld Airport) for an initial period of one year. Passenger numbers have dropped drastically due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning that the volume of passenger traffic can be handled entirely at Terminal 1.

The savings resulting from the concentration of air traffic only in Terminal 1 of the airport Berlin-Brandenburg it amounts to approximately 25 million euros per year.

The new Terminal 2, fully completed and operational, will also not be commissioned for the time being. As soon as passenger numbers increase again, Terminal 2 and subsequently Terminal 5 operations will gradually resume as needed.

SunExpress departs from Terminal 1 from 1 February.

The first airline to move operations from Terminal 5 to Terminal 1 was SunExpress, from 1 February. For flights departing from Terminal 5 until February 23, passengers are asked to contact the airline or the berlin-airport.de website to be informed of any changes to departures and arrivals.

Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, CEO of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH estimates that in 2021 Berlin Brandenburg Airport will handle around 10 million passengers, well below initial estimates made before the pandemic. Terminal 5 will be preserved and organized so that it can be reopened in a few weeks, when the need arises.

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