Reason For Why Berlin-Tegel Airport is Closing

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@Roymsanders

If my memory serves me right the East Germans built an airport with longer runways in the eastern sector to compete with Tegal which was on land not constricted by buildings. Also to hinder flights using Tegal they erected a tower directly on the approach path overflying East Germany. Having flown into both Tegal with Dan-Air and the new East Berlin Airport with Iraqi Airways during the 1970 Tegal was an old pre-war generation airport compared with the then new East Berlin airport.

Schonefeld is the former East Berlin airport. Again, go to berlin-airport.de/EN/index2.php for a history.