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'''Berlin Schönefeld Airport''' ({{lang-de|Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld}}) {{airport codes|SXF|EDDB{{nobold|, originally}} ETBS}} was<ref name="sxfbermerger"/><ref name="dmm"/> the secondary [[international airport]] of [[Berlin]], the capital of Germany. It was located {{convert|18|km|abbr=on}} southeast<ref name="AIP" /> of Berlin near the town of [[Schönefeld]] in the state of [[Brandenburg]] and bordered Berlin's southern boundary. It was the smaller of the two [[List of airports in Berlin|airports in Berlin]], after [[Berlin Tegel Airport]], and served as an operating base for [[easyJet]] and [[Ryanair]]. In 2017, the airport handled 12.9 million passengers by serving mainly [[List of metropolitan areas in Europe|European metropolitan]] and [[leisure]] destinations. In the same year, the travel portal [[eDreams]] ranked Berlin Schönefeld as the worst airport in the world after evaluating 65,000 airport reviews.<ref name="eDreams">{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/worst-airports-world-edreams-a7627501.html |title=THE 10 WORST AIRPORTS IN THE WORLD |publisher=Independent |author=Sam Shead |date=13 March 2017 |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> Schönefeld Airport was the major civil airport of [[East Germany]] (GDR) and the only airport of the former [[East Berlin]].
On 25 October 2020 the Schönefeld name and [[IATA code]] ceased to exist,<ref name="sxfbermerger"/><ref name="dmm"/> marking its closure as an independent airport, with large parts of its infrastructure being incorporated into the new [[Berlin Brandenburg Airport]] {{Airport codes|BER|EDDB}} as its ''Terminal 5''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://berlinspectator.com/2019/11/29/berlin-new-ber-airport-to-open-on-october-31st-2020/|language=en|title=Berlin: New 'BER Airport' to Open on October 31st, 2020|date=9 December 2019|website=berlinspectator.com}}</ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-airport-berlin/berlins-new-airport-to-finally-open-in-october-2020-idUSL8N1OD27P Berlin's new airport to finally open in October 2020] - Reuters, 15 December 2017</ref><ref name="renaming"/> However by November 2022, the refurbished Terminal 5 had been closed for good without being put in operation.<ref name="closure"/>
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