GERMANY. Berlin Brandenburg Airport Terminal 2 is to enter operations on 24 March, the airport company confirmed today. Low-cost carrier Ryanair will be the main airline partner.
T2 was completed at the end of September 2020 before the opening of Berlin’s new airport. It has not been used until now due to the low number of passengers during the pandemic.
T2, which can serve around 6 million passengers a year, serves as a check-in building for departures and arrivals. It is connected to the departure gates in Terminal 1’s North Pier via two bridges. The train station below Terminal 1 offers a direct connection to both terminals and the multi-storey car parks can also be used for both. Most shops and restaurants are located in an airside plaza past new security checkpoints.
The move comes as passenger traffic picks up at the airport serving the German capital. After a slow start in 2022, signs of recovery came in February. Berlin Brandenburg served around 953,000 passengers in the month, about 6.5 times the previous year’s figure, and 186,000 more than in January, which was three days longer.
In February 2019, before the start of the pandemic, 2.54 million passengers passed through the former airports at Tegel and Schönefeld.
