Press­ Release

Winter Flight Schedule 2021/2022 Begins / Long-Haul to the USA and Singapore

The winter flight schedule for 2021/2022 begins on Sunday, October 31, 2021. As in every season, the time change is the key date for changing the flight schedule. Until 26 March 2022, 76 airlines are expected to fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to 144 destinations in 54 countries. For November 2021 alone, 132 specific destinations are planned, compared to 72 destinations in November 2020. In 2019, SXF and TXL still boasted 145 destinations. Popular sun and winter destinations are also on the flight schedule, as are European cities and long-haul routes to the USA and Asia. The largest offer goes to city destinations with and without transfer airports such as Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Zurich or Istanbul. City trips - whether private or business - are experiencing an uptick again this winter.

Aletta von Massenbach, Chief Executive Officer of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH: “The airlines will continue to offer their passengers a wide range of travel options in the coming weeks and months. This shows that flight schedules are stabilising and represents an important step towards greater normality in air traffic. We are particularly pleased that two important long-haul destinations, Singapore and New York, are returning to the region and that Washington will join them in May. That speaks volumes for the attractiveness of our airport and bodes well for BER's second year of operation.”

Long-haul from BER

The elimination of travel restrictions and the gradual opening of some countries and regions around the world, such as Singapore and the USA, to vaccinated travellers, brings long-haul connections back to the capital region.

• Scoot, the low-cost subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, has been flying direct from BER to Singapore three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays) since 20 October 2021. The non-stop connection is made possible by expanding the “travel corridor for vaccinated people” between Germany and Singapore (also called Vaccinated Travel Lane, VLT for short). Non-VLT flights from BER, which re-started in August 2021 via Athens to Singapore, complement the non-stop connection and are available four times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays). This means travellers can reach Singapore everyday from BER.
• The re-opening of the USA to vaccinated travellers in November 2021 means long-haul connections across the Atlantic can resume. At the end of the winter flight schedule, United Airlines will return to the capital region and resume long-haul connections to Newark/New York. From 5 March 2022, the connection will again be on the airline's daily flight roster year-round.
  
• With the 2022 summer flight schedule, the American airline is expanding its services from BER and will offer daily connections to Washington D.C. from 7 May 2022. This represents the first time that United Airlines has flown this route to the US capital from Berlin-Brandenburg. The flights will initially be operated seasonally until the end of the summer flight schedule. Both routes will be flown by Boeing 767 aircraft.
• From 20 December Qatar Airways will increase the frequency of its BER - Doha flights. Instead of five times a week, the Qatari capital will be served daily again. It is flown with a Boeing 787-800.
• This winter, Dubai is just one non-stop flight away. The route to the United Arab Emirates will initially be flown twice a week (Mondays and Thursdays) by the Latvian airline SmartLynx Airlines in partnership with the package tour operator FTI Touristik. From 18 December 2021, the connection will be expanded to include a third weekly flight (Saturdays).

Flight schedule from BER

Whether it’s sun or snow, or for a holiday, city break or business trip: BER’s winter flight schedule 2021/2022 offers a varied mix of destinations.

• easyJet is expanding its range of BER flights for the 2021/2022 winter season and will offer additional flights to popular winter sun destinations such as Madeira, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or Hurghada in Egypt. City destinations such as Milan or Paris will also be served more frequently and easyJet also boasts an attractive selection of ski destinations such as Salzburg or Innsbruck for all winter sports fans.
• Eurowings is raising the number of its weekly flights to the Canary Islands at the beginning of the winter flight schedule to a total of ten. Lanzarote (Tuesdays and Sundays) and Fuerteventura (Thursdays and Saturdays) are each served twice a week, Gran Canaria and Tenerife are served three times a week (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) from BER. In addition, flights leave almost every day (except Tuesdays) to Palma de Mallorca. Eurowings has increased its domestic flights to German destinations Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Cologne/Bonn by up to seven connections per week.
• Ryanair is offering travellers a mix of sun, winter and city destinations this winter. These include both new and former destinations returning for the first time since the start of the pandemic. From November 2, 2021, Marseille will be served by the Irish airline. Flights to southern France will leave BER three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays). Marrakech is on the flight schedule twice a week (Wednesdays, Saturdays) once direct flights become possible again. Flights to Tel Aviv leave daily and, from December, twice a day on two days a week (Wednesdays, Sundays). From December 3, the airline will also fly to Lappeenranta, Finland, twice a week (Mondays and Fridays). In addition to the new destinations, Ryanair is increasing frequencies on its routes to the Canary Islands and Málaga and is again offering daily flights to Madrid, Bologna and Brussels as well as Bucharest.
• Air France begins flights from BER to Paris Orly just in time for the start of the winter flight schedule. Its daily connection is in addition to flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
• Pegas Fly, the Russian airline, connects BER with Kaliningrad, the capital of the eponymous Russian province on the Baltic Sea. The route is currently flown once a week and from November twice a week (Wednesdays and Sundays).
• Transavia France flies three times a week (Mondays, Fridays, Sundays) from BER to Paris Orly Airport in the French capital. The connection will be offered from now until 14 November again from 17 December 2021 to 3 January 2022 and then from February 2022 throughout the entire summer.
• Iberia Express resumes flights to Madrid three times a day at the start of the winter flight schedule. For the first time, the airline will now offer the same frequency of flights as existed before the crisis.
• Aeroflot is increasing the number of weekly flights to Moscow from eight to ten. The connection appears daily in the airline's flight roster, and even twice daily from Friday to Sunday. Flights to St. Petersburg leave four times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays).
• TAP Air Portugal is increasing the number of flights to Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, by up to 15 times a week this winter. The connection will be offered daily. The focus is on the weekend