It was announced today that Germania will be the frst airline to use the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport in the south east of the city and close to the historic suburb of Karlshorst.
This November Germania will move from Tegel to Berlin Brandenburg.
The new airport has been bedevilled with glitches and was due to have been opened last year and then again an opening date earlier this year had to be cancelled.
The aiport is in Schönefeld close to Berlin's second airport, which was formerly the main airport for East Berlin.
The opening of Berlin Brandenburg will be the final step in the restructuring of the city on the Spree as the German capital.
When fully operational Tegel will be closed. Tempelhof was closed three years ago.
And it so happens that the CEO of the Airport Authority is Mr Hartmut Mehdorn, who was CEO of German Rail when the magnificent new Berlin Main Station was opened on the site of the former Lehrter Rail Station.
Up until 1945 Lehrter Bahnhof was the main Berlin rail station for trains travelling to and from north Germany, including Hamburg.
Today ICEs travel between the two cities. Journey time is 90 minutes.
The new Berlin Brandenburg Airport will have a main station on the campus with direct connections to all major German cities.
Next year German ICEs will be linking Stuttgart, Frankfurt-am-Main and Mannheim with London.
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