Tegel Airport

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The development of the airport to its present size began in 1969. In October 1974 the new Tegel Airport was inaugurated and became fully operational on Sept. 1, 1975. Further extension in the nineties is being contested on environmental grounds; however, there is a strong lobby in favor of increasing the passenger capacity to 14million a year.

Tegel Airport, also known since 1988 under the name of the flight pioneer Otto Lilienthal (a reproduction true to the original of the Lilienthal glider is housed in the main building), has two runways, respectively 2,400 m/2,625yd and 3,000 m/3,280yd long, a hexagonal airport building and fourteen gates, dealing with just under six million passengers each year. The apron can accommodate up to 35 aircraft. There is a restaurant on the third floor of the airport building and an information desk in the main hall. The lost property office adjoins the left luggage section. A visit is recommended to the exhibition of old-fashioned aircraft on the visitors' terrace

On the car-park in front of the airport building stands the "Gateway to the Clouds" sculpture by Heinrich Brummack (1975).