Fall in Love with Budget Flights from Berlin!
In 2008, Berlin airports processed a total of 21.4 million passengers in flights to and from Berlin, a number which grew from 20 million the previous year. This makes the city tops in Germany in terms of passenger traffic.
As the airports with the strongest passenger increase in the country, the growth will develop Berlin further into a bigger hub for servicing Asia and Eastern Europe. The city will join Europe’s top ten highest traffic handlers in three years.
There are now connecting routes between Germany (Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Cologne, Munich, Münster-Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Stuttgart), Austria (Vienna) and Switzerland (Zurich).
Flights from Berlin to North America
Major airlines provide links that connect flights from Berlin, the newest conference and exhibition center in Europe, to New York and Washington DC. For other US and Canadian cities, flights from Berlin use Amsterdam as hub to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Osaka, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington.
All flights from Berlin linking South American destinations have to course through the Madrid hub.
Flights from Asia to Berlin
There will be a few non-stop connections between Berlin and Beijing in summer 2009. Around 46,000 passengers flew on flights from Berlin to China in 2008, which is 23 per cent more than in 2007.
Flights from Berlin to Bangkok and Hong Kong are also available through Europe. There are very few direct air links between Asian capitals, so most flights from Asia go through hubs in Europe such as London before proceeding to Berlin. For flights from Berlin to Delhi, Osaka, and Saporro and Beijing can pass through Amsterdam.
Paris serves as hub for flights from Berlin to Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. Flights from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, however, connect to Berlin.
London also processes flights from Berlin to Bangkok, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mexico-City, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. Because of the big Turkish population in Germany, there are frequent budget flights from Istanbul and Ankara to Berlin.
Flights from Berlin to European Destinations
European airlines fortunately have hundreds of budget flights from all over Europe crisscrossing Berlin. One way flights from Berlin to Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and Hungary are priced as low as 29 euros with surcharges and taxes included. Flights from Berlin to the Helsinki in Finland are also planned in the future. Meanwhile, flights from a Berlin carrier offers summer trips from Nuremberg to Milan in Italy.
Budget airlines are also increasing the frequency of flights from the Berlin carrier between Düsseldorf and Copenhagen, Düsseldorf and Milan, Nuremberg and Budapest, and Berlin and Stockholm.
By 2011, industry leaders predict the market will develop more frequent direct flights when Tegel shuts down and the city’s single airport of the future is renamed from Schönefeld to the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport. The city has great potentials for more tourist, convention and business trips in the next decade.