In the future, Siko will organize Berlin Airport itself

After Frankfurt Airport, BER will also carry out security checks on its own in the future. The corresponding loan was received on October 4, 2023. It is expected that from 2024 onwards, the “Siko” will no longer be organized by the federal police, but by the airport itself.

After Frankfurt am Main Airport, BER is the second German airport to reorganize its tasks in the area of ​​air security checks on passengers and their luggage and to take responsibility for this important process step in airport operations.

Aletta von Massenbach, CEO of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH: “The safety of passengers at BER Airport remains the top priority. By taking responsibility for passenger and hand luggage checks, we as an airport company will be organizing the processes and technology in our terminals from next year. We want to improve the processes at the control lanes and reduce waiting times for our passengers.”