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Posted onPost created on
June 04 2012 08:52 ET by Roger Taylor
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Pilots
I have just added the new Berlin Airport which is set to replace Tegel and Schoenfeld during the coming weeks.
NOW the airport itself is on the South Side of Schoenfeld using the existing runways, so if your wondering about scenery etc, you'll be flying into Schoenfeld. I just thought I would tell you all before you all got ape over a new airport and now where to fly to...
Roger

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Posted onPost created on
June 04 2012 13:36 ET by Federico Di Biase
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thanks for the update Roger. Does that change affect the historical route too?
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June 04 2012 16:10 ET by Fabien Bergeret
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Perfect
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Posted onPost created on
June 04 2012 17:13 ET by Roger Taylor
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Federico Di Biase wrote:
thanks for the update Roger. Does that change affect the historical route too?
No it doesn't, not for the moment yet anyway....
The Airport itself is late opening, but for what ever reason the schedules are NOT showing this, so RW AF and KLM are still flying into Tegel at the moment even though the schedules show the new Brandenburg Airport.
I may add a flight from CDG and AMS into Tegel once Brandenburg is fully operational. However for our purpose here, all flights need to go into Schoenfeld else it will get flagged as they are already showing the new Airport is in use.

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Posted onPost created on
June 05 2012 10:51 ET by Robert Armstrong
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Opening has been delayed until March 2013 I believe
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June 05 2012 15:58 ET by Roger Taylor
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Robert Armstrong wrote:
Opening has been delayed until March 2013 I believe
Correct, however Schedules have yet to catch up with RW events, remembering Airlines send there Schedules months in advance for booking purposes, and then get edited but as the airport only decided last month not to open, Schedules are somewhat behind RW events, so still showing the New Airport, No doubt they will be updated to fly back into Tegel when they update there res systems.
As it is now, even though the flights are showing Brandenburg, both KLM and Air France are still flying into Tegel. But for now in order for AFV Pilots to fly to Berlin they'll have to use Schoenfeld (Brandenburg) Airport as this is the Airport in the schedules. July/August Airlines tend to send out updates for Summer Schedules so there is a good chance that Tegel will be back. If not then in October when the Winter Schedule is release it will be. Then in March 2013 it will go to the new airport from the start of the Summer Schedules

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June 28 2012 14:33 ET by Nicolas Martin
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There might be even more delay according to latest news...
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Posted onPost created on
June 28 2012 16:36 ET by Robert Armstrong
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Nicolas Martin wrote:
There might be even more delay according to latest news...
Robert Armstrong wrote:
Opening has been delayed until March 2013 I believe
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July 12 2012 23:44 ET by Nicolas Martin
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I meant even later than March 2013 with my answer... The whole security concept seems to be a mess... In the meantime, Tegel is running at capacity limits...
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Posted onPost created on
September 06 2012 12:40 ET by Nicolas Martin
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Here we go, most likely going to be pushed back to October 27th 2013.
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