Berlin Schönefeld Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport ("") is the secondary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is located southeast of Berlin near the town of Schönefeld in the state of Brandenburg and borders Berlin's southern boundary. It is the smaller of the two airports in Berlin, after Berlin Tegel Airport, and is a base for Germania, easyJet and Ryanair. In 2017 the airport handled 12.9 million passengers by serving mainly European metropolitan and leisure destinations. Schönefeld Airport was the major civil airport of East Germany (GDR) and the only airport of the former East Berlin. Part of
Detroit Metropolitan Airport the county expanded the airport to become Detroit's primary airport. It renamed the facility Detroit-Wayne Major Airport in 1947, and in the next three years expanded threefold as three more runways were built. In 1949, the airport added runways 3L/21R and 9L/27R, followed by runway 4R/22L in 1950. In 1946–47, most airline traffic moved from the cramped Detroit City Airport (now Coleman Young International Airport) northeast of downtown Detroit to the larger Willow Run Airport over west of the city, and west of Wayne County Airport. Pan-Am (1954) and BOAC (1956) were the first passenger airlines at Detroit-Wayne Major. In