Next year, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport wants to return to the passenger numbers that were previously achieved at the former Tegel and Schönefeld airports. It is expected that around eight percent more passengers will be able to be handled in 2024. However, this is still around ten million travelers per year below the pre-crisis figure.

However, there are also some setbacks: Ryanair and Easyjet, which have traditionally catered for many passengers, have significantly reduced their offers. According to the two providers, this is due to high airport fees, but also generally expensive taxes in Germany. Although some new additions have been announced in the recent past, the offer is still significantly lower than before in Schönefeld and Tegel.

BER boss Aletta von Massenbach told Reuters News, among other things, that it is assumed that around 2024 million passengers will use Berlin-Brandenburg Airport in 24,8. In her view, this would build on the performance of Schönefeld and Tegel, but she also admitted that the value that the two previous airports were able to achieve in 2019 will still be a long way away. At that time, SXF and TXL had a combined 35,65 million travelers. It will only be around the end of the current decade that BER will have fully recovered from the effects of the corona pandemic and the political climate that is unfavorable for aviation.

With a few exceptions, German airports are lagging far behind the performance they had before the crisis. A few regional airports have already exceeded the volume. This is mostly due to the fact that you have come to an agreement with low-costers such as Ryanair and/or Wizz Air and they have added additional routes or significantly increased existing ones. Stuttgart Airport was hit even harder than Berlin-Brandenburg because, with the exception of one Vueling route, all low-cost services were lost. As a result, prices at top dog Eurowings and other providers have risen significantly. State politicians do not want corresponding countermeasures in the form of new incentive programs or reductions in fees.