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Spain is the most popular holiday destination. Christmas time is travel time: During the upcoming holidays from December 20th to January 5th, the Berlin airport company is expecting a good 1.05 million passengers.
Update: The Senat offers a database to find most Christmas Markets in your area:
https://www.berlin.de/sen/web/service/maerkte-feste/weihnachtsmaerkte
Interactive map to find a Weihnachtsmarkt: https://weihnachtsmaerkte.odis-berlin.de/?id=&lang=de
A total of six new destinations and routes
Airline flies to Dubai, Hurghada and Gran Canaria
The 2024/2025 winter flight schedule comes into force on Sunday, October 27. Several airlines at BER have increased their long-haul services, particularly to the Middle East, and further expanded connections to city destinations, the far north and popular vacation regions.
Amman back in the flight schedule from BER
New long-haul route from BER
Since July 1, 2024, Berlin Brandenburg Airport has been offering its passengers at BER an additional digital service: With BER Biometrics, it is now possible for all travelers to use various stations in Terminal 1 on departure via facial recognition and thus contactless without showing their boarding pass.
Ryanair is significantly expanding its range of flights from BER Airport. The Irish airline will be flying to six new destinations this summer: Castellón, Kaunas, Birmingham, Trieste, Dubrovnik and Reggio Calabria.
Since today. Monday, February 26, the trade union Ver.di has called for strikes in local public transport in all German states except Bavaria.
