Die FBB betreibt den Flughafen Schönefeld und über ihre Tochtergesellschaft BFG den Flughafen Tegel. Im Jahr 2017 wurden an den Flughäfen rund 33,3 Millionen Passagiere befördert. Damit ist Berlin der drittgrößte Flughafenstandort in Deutschland. Um die nötigen Kapazitäten für die Zukunft zu schaffen, entsteht derzeit der neue Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt am Standort Schönefeld.

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Relief flight from the German Red Cross to Ukraine in March 2014. Cargo Air freight in Berlin Air freight volume in Berlin rose faster than the national average as well. In 2014, 43,388 tonnes of air freight were transported by plane, an increase of 23%. On average, the other commercial airports posted no more than 5% growth. Additionally, 5,355 tonnes of overnight airmail were flown to Stuttgart in fulfilment of orders from Deutsche Post World Net AG (-2%). An additional 13,000 tonnes from the airlines and about 21,000 tonnes from shipping agents were processed as air freight delivered by lorry to the European hubs of the airlines via the air freight facilities in Berlin. In total, about 83,000 tonnes of air freight were transshipped through the freight facilities of the Berlin airports in 2014 (+6%). Freight at SXF, TXL and BER About 7,800 tonnes of air freight were transshipped at Schönefeld (+6.2%) in 2014. Growth drivers are the express services TNT Express, UPS and FedEx. FedEx flies every workday from the European hub in Paris to the Polish commercial metropolis Gdansk via Berlin. TNT Express also flies to Gdansk from its European hub in Liege via Berlin, while UPS takes off to its European hub in Cologne. The German Red Cross sent relief material flights from its relief materials centre at Schönefeld Airport (which is open 24 hours a day) to Erbil in Northern Iraq, Sierra Leone and other areas in 2014. Last year, about 35,500 tonnes of air freight (+27.6%), 5,450 tonnes of airmail and about 34,000 tonnes in air freight substitute carriage were transshipped at Berlin-Tegel for airlines and forwarding agents by the two

Air Traffic in the Capital City Region | 19 The German Red Cross flew relief materials for the fight against Ebola to Sierra Leone in November 2014. cargo handlers Wisag Cargo Service and Swissport Cargo Service. Growth drivers were the increased long-haul routes for airberlin and the Airbus A330 flying to Doha for Qatar Airways. In response to the more than doubled freight volume since 2009, an additional 500 square metres of transshipment area was created at Tegel. The belly cargo at Schönefeld has been handled by the Cargo Center at BER since August 2013. Besides the cargo handler Wisag Cargo Service, other tenants moving into office space include Lufthansa Cargo, the freight gen- Ambulances are loaded into the Ilyushin IL-76. eral sales agents Air Logistics and ATC lets in two temperature zones. There is Aviation and the shipping agents DHL a transshipment area of about 10,000 and Müller & Partner. Border Veterinary square metres for freight transship- Service, plant health inspection ment which can handle up to 100,000 and customs are also located here. The tonnes of freight per year. Direct apron Cargo Center has a refrigeration centre access ensures fast transfer to the for the handling of up to 120 Euro pal- aircraft.