In the coming weeks, the airports are preparing for a busy influx. Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH is also expecting an increase in travel volumes during the fall holidays. BER is preparing for around 900.000 passengers to be processed by the last day before school starts (October 24, 2021). It will be particularly busy on the holiday weekends, with peaks on Fridays and Sundays. On these two days, the passenger volume will be between 60.000 and 65.000 passengers. Due to the start of the holidays, the busiest day will be Friday, October 08, 2021, when a good 65.000 passengers are expected at BER. The 2021 fall holidays will see around 50 percent of the passenger volume of the fall holidays in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, when around 1,8 million passengers flew from Schönefeld and Tegel. Compared to the autumn holidays in 2020, when around 335.000 passengers were counted, holiday traffic has increased significantly. Automated baggage drop-off BER is keeping up with the other airports in this respect: passengers can now check in independently, print out their baggage label and drop off their luggage at the baggage carousel themselves. With Easyjet, the Lufthansa Group, Eurowings, Air Baltic and Norwegian, several airlines are already offering their passengers this service in full or in part, according to the airport. During the holiday period, 64 airlines fly to 137 destinations in 49 countries. The offer is thus almost 80 percent compared to the same period in 2019.