A plane which departed from Tegel Airport was forced to make an emergency landing at Stuttgart Airport on Sept 14th. The plane was carrying Franz Muentefering who was once the labor minister in Germany and is now the chairman of the German Social Democratic Party.
Thankfully there were no major injuries with just one passenger suffering [...]
Officials in Berlin are still struggling to come up with ideas for the recently closed Tempelhof Airport. On Monday an announcement was made by the Development Minister Ingeborg Junge-Reyer that some parts of the airport grounds will be opened as parkspace. This area is expected to be around three hundred hectares in size.
The huge building [...]
Recent reports have suggested that the working title “Brandenburg Airport” will not be retained once Berlin’s new airport opens in 2012.
Government officials feel that the airport should have a more catchy interesting name. Work is currently underway on designing a logo for the airport however there is still uncertainty surrounding the name with Willy Brandt’s [...]
Germany like the vast majority of countries in Europe has seen a drop in air traffic over the last year. Traffic was down by almost ten percent in some locations for the first six months of this year. February was easily the worst month reported mainly due to its shortness.
One of the exceptions to the [...]
The construction of Berlin Brandenburg International Airport received a boost last week with the news that the European Commission will not stand in the way regarding finance.
The cost of the airport is estimated at three point six billion euro. Almost two and a half billion of the cost is been supplied by the public shareholders [...]