page_title: Berlin Tegel Airport
section_title: Tegel's new terminal takes shape
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin Tegel Airport / History / Cold War era (1948–1990) / Tegel's new terminal takes shape
caption_attribution_description: BERLIN TEGEL FLUGHAFEN GERMANY JUNE 2013
context_page_description: Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport is the main international airport of Berlin, the federal capital of Germany. The airport is named after Otto Lilienthal and is the fourth busiest airport in Germany, with 20.5 million passengers in 2017 and about 22 million in 2018. The airport is a hub for Eurowings as well as a base for EasyJet. It features flights to several European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as some intercontinental routes.
  It is situated in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf, 8 km northwest of the city centre of Berlin. Tegel Airport is notable for its hexagonal main terminal building around an open square, which makes walking distances as short as 30 m from the aircraft to the terminal exit. As of July 2020, Berlin Brandenburg Airport is scheduled to replace Tegel beginning November 2020, despite several delays.
context_section_description: Construction of a new, hexagonally shaped terminal complex on the airport's south side began during the 1960s. This coincided with the lengthening of the runways to permit fully laden widebodied aircraft to take off and land without restricting their range and construction of a motorway and access road linking the new terminal to the city centre. It became operational on 1 November 1974.
  A British Airways L-1011 Tristar 1, a Laker Airways McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10, a Pan Am Boeing 747-100 and an Air France Airbus A300 B2 were among the widebodied aircraft specially flown in for a pre-inauguration of the new terminal on 23 October 1974. Dan-Air operated the first commercial flight to arrive at the airport's new terminal at 06.00 am local time with a BAC One-Eleven that was inbound from Tenerife.
caption: The main building with Terminals A and B inaugurated in November 1974
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