Press Release

Attractive travel destinations in the 2024/2025 winter flight schedule

Expanded flight schedules for European and long-haul routes

On Sunday, 27 October, the winter flight schedule 2024/2025 will come into effect. Several airlines at BER have increased their long-haul services, particularly to the Middle East, and further expanded connections to city destinations, the far north and popular holiday regions. In the period up to 29 March 2025, a total of 69 airlines will fly to 133 destinations in 50 countries. This continues the growth trend: the route network is growing for the second time in a row – with eight new destinations since the previous year and 22 additional destinations compared to 2022/2023.

Aletta von Massenbach, CEO of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH: “The winter flight programme 2024/2025 from BER offers attractive long-haul connections to the USA, Asia and the Middle East. Travellers also benefit from a diverse portfolio of classic winter destinations, dynamic metropolises and sunny destinations within Europe and North Africa.”

Long-haul flights from BER

United Airlines continues to fly to New York daily. Norse Atlantic Airways is extending its flight schedule to the Big Apple and will fly into the new year. The airline will also resume its connection to Miami in mid-November, which will then be served twice a week. Hainan Airlines is flying to Beijing four times a week this winter, more frequently than in the previous season. Scoot flies to Singapore three times a week. Qatar Airways increased its flight schedule to Doha to 18 connections per week at the beginning of October, which corresponds to an increase of 28 percent. A new long-haul destination in the flight schedule from BER is Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, which is served by flynas and Eurowings. The connection to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates will also be expanded, as Condor will also be providing daily connections alongside Eurowings.

Overview of new winter destinations from BER

Condor is back at BER and connects the capital region with three sunny destinations. On the night of the flight schedule change, October 26, the airline will start its daily flights to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. From October 27, there will be four flights a week to Hurghada in Egypt and from October 31, Condor will fly to Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands twice a week.

easyJet is flying to a number of new destinations this winter. From November 5, the airline will be flying to Agadir in Morocco (twice a week) and from November 8 to Lyon in France (twice a week). The connection to Cairo in Egypt will be resumed on November 6. The Nordic winter destinations of Tromsø in Norway and Rovaniemi in Finland will follow on December 6 and 7. From February 14, 2025, Liverpool in Great Britain will also be back on the flight schedule from BER.

Eurowings is starting a new flight to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on November 5. The connection to the Middle East will be offered three times a week. In addition, the German holiday airline will resume its daily connection to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on October 27. From December 14, Eurowings will also fly to Faro in Portugal (twice a week).

Norse Atlantic Airways is resuming service to the popular sunny destination of Miami in Florida, flying twice a week to the southern US east coast. The connection to New York will continue until January 12.

Royal Jordanian is also back at BER and has been connecting the capital region with Amman in Jordan twice a week since October 2.

Ryanair is expanding its winter flight programme by around 8% compared to the same period last year and is offering direct flights to Trieste and Reggio Calabria for the first time in winter. In addition, the Irish airline is increasing the number of flights flown on many routes, including Budapest, Edinburgh, Faro, Marseille, Catania, Milan, Alicante, Barcelona and Madrid.

Swiss International Air Lines will connect BER daily with Geneva, another destination in Switzerland.

Wizz Air will resume flights to Chișinău in the Republic of Moldova on December 17, connecting the destination twice a week.