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Berlin-Schoenefeld International Airport (ICAO: EDDB) is an international airport located in the town of Schoenefeld in Brandenburg, adjacent to Berlin's southern border. It is referred to as "The Holiday Airport", as it has mostly international charter flights. Schoenefeld was once the major civil airport of East Germany (and only airport serving East Berlin).
It lies outside the city, unlike the other two Berlin airports, Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Tempelhof and the problem of noise pollution is not so much of an issue. Berlin-Schoenefeld will be transformed into Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI) in 2011. Once the expansion of the new terminal starts construction, Berlin-Tempelhof airport will close (originally planned for 30 October 2004 but now likely to be October 2008). Six months after the airport is renamed and the new section opened, Berlin-Tegel airport will then close. In 2006, it served 6,059,343 passengers. |
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