The area of ​​the former Berlin-Tegel Airport, including its 130 buildings, was returned to the owners on Wednesday. Tegel Projekt GmbH will manage the property from Wednesday. A corresponding takeover protocol was signed in the morning by Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH as well as the federal government and the state of Berlin.

On November 8, 2020, the last aircraft took off from TXL airport with an Air France plane. Air traffic in Tegel ended after more than 70 years. Since then, flight operations in the capital region have been concentrated at Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport in Schönefeld. On May 4, 2021, the operating license for TXL finally expired.

With the handover to the owners, the airport company has fulfilled all the requirements from the notices to close Tegel Airport and to revoke the planning approval. Among other things, the auxiliary terminal C3 and the pedestrian bridge between Terminals A / B and C were demolished in the last few months and the technical systems for the German air traffic control, the German weather service and the federal police were dismantled.

The Berlin Airport Company, which operated Tegel Airport until 2020, has lost its purpose with the return and is merging with FBB. It had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB) since 2003.

“With the handover of the area to the owners Bund and Berlin, the last step towards the closure of Tegel Airport has been taken. We have thus fulfilled all of our obligations on time. The cooperation with the responsible senate offices and the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) has been very constructive and goal-oriented for many years, for which we would like to thank. We are convinced that our old TXL airport will develop into an attractive research and industrial location with international significance and thus into a figurehead for the capital. This means that Tegel continues to be a gateway to the world and will continue to serve all Berliners well in the future. We wholeheartedly wish Tegel Projekt GmbH success with their ambitious development project, ”explains FBB boss Engelbert Lütke Daldrup.