Shock for travelers: 20 flights on the BER due to black ice!

At the capital airport BER, around 20 flights had to be canceled on Sunday due to the winter weather. A spokeswoman for the airport announced that numerous machines could not start at other European airports. In order to ensure the security of the landings, the number of landings was limited to 20 per hour as a precaution, although theoretically up to 40 landings are possible per hour. However, flight operations on BER are largely normal, and the airlines themselves decide which flights are carried out. Passengers are advised to find out directly from their airlines.

Winterwetter also led to disorders in flight operations in the days before, such as aero.de reported. From Friday evening at 9:00 p.m., no landings were admitted due to strong smoothness. A total of 30 flights were affected; 15 of them were diverted to Hamburg, Hanover and Leipzig, while another 15 deleted and not started to BER. On Saturday until noon, another 17 departures failed, whereby the machines were affected that could not land the evening before. While some passengers had to spend the night in the terminals, flight operations are now normal again and there are currently no more restrictions.

technical problems and border controls

In addition to the weather -related challenges, there were problems with the border controls on BER and at other large German airports due to a technical failure that led to delays on Friday afternoon. However, there are currently no further restrictions on border controls.