Pleasingly, the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport has a little nod to the history of the city. The Berlin Airport lounge names for the common use facilities come from the old airports.
BER has been a saga from start to finish. The original opening date of 3 June 2012 was postponed just 26 days prior. Since then it has been a lot of rebuilding and redesign, not to mention a colossal amount of money, to get the airport up and running.
Berlin Airport Lounge Names
Thanks to the history of Berlin, at one time the city had three main airports. These were Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport and Berlin Schönefeld Airport. The original airport, opened all the way back in 1923 was Tempelhof, which had the code THF.
But What About Schönefeld?
Berlin Brandenburg Airport is actually on the site of the former Berlin Schönefeld Airport. A new runway was constructed to the south and a new terminal was built in between, complete with road and rail connections.
In fact, the old Schönefeld terminal will now become Terminal 5 at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Low cost airlines such as Ryanair will be based there, pending a new Terminal 3 coming in the future. Therefore, the terminals right now are 1, 2, and 5.
Overall Thoughts
It is great to see the Berlin airport lounge names being Lounge Tempelhof and Lounge Tegel. Back when the airport was originally scheduled to open, the anchor tenant was to be airBerlin.
They built a lounge at the airport, which was never used as they went bankrupt in late 2017. The former airBerlin lounge is now the Lounge Tempelhof, for those wanting to know such details.
Are you looking forward to trying the new Berlin Airport when it opens in a few days time? Will you miss anything about Tegel or even Tempelhof? Do you also like the new Berlin airport lounge names? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Tempelhof I miss. I used to live very close, and flying to New York via Amsterdam from Tempelhof and coming back basically right to my flat was an experience that no Modern airport delivers… Also the nice view over the airfield when boarding. Landings in Tempelhof also felt special.
Landing at Tempelhof was wonderful! You could almost touch the blocks of apartments and so on as you passed them. A really fun experience. It is a shame such a historic airport had to close, but many have suffered the same fate over the years. At least you can still go there and it is a nice park, rather than being some kind of development.
I booked to fly into Berlin in 2012 in order to be one of the first to experience the new BER. It didn’t’t happen, of course! Now I most wait for Covid to ease so I can get to fly there from Australia.
I’m looking forward to trying it myself. I want to see this airport that cost more than some small countries GDP. Plus I’d like to visit Berlin again as well.