
BER had 1,77 million passengers in December 2023
Berlin Brandenburg Airport had around 2023 million passengers in December 1,77. This represents a slight increase compared to November 2023. However, it was still well below the pre-crisis volume that Tegel and Schönefeld were able to achieve. In December 2022, 1,53 million passengers were counted at BER, while in December of the pre-Corona year 2019, there were 2,6 million passengers at the then Tegel and Schönefeld airports. The number of flight movements in December 2023 was around 13.600. That was around 1.400 take-offs and landings more than in the same month last year. In December 2019, almost 21.200 flight movements were registered at Tegel and Schönefeld. “Demand for air travel continued to rise last year. Around 20 million people used BER in 2023 for flights abroad or for flights from abroad to Berlin. This corresponds to 73 percent of the pre-Corona level and is a sign that vacation continues to be very important to people. In terms of long-haul connections themselves, we were back at the level of 2019 last year," said BER boss Aletta von Massenbach. A total of 23,07 million passengers used BER last year. That was 3,22 million more than in 2022, but still 12,6 million fewer than before the pandemic. A total of 176.649 aircraft took off and landed at the capital airport last year. This corresponds to an increase of 7,5 percent compared to 2022. In 2019, there were 277.600 takeoffs and landings. Air freight last December was 14 percent higher than the freight volume of the pre-Corona year 2019: A total of around