Aviation

Germany is arming its Air Force. In Berlin, the Bundestag's appropriations committee OK'd the purchase of an entire fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 jets. The acquisition will increase Germany's military strength substantially, at a critical time.

For the first time ever, there are direct flights to Fort Lauderdale from Berlin, thanks to the Norwegian low-cost airline Norse. The trip from the German…

Five of the six activists who blocked BER Airport on Thursday are now free again while one person remains in custody. An investigation into the case is ongoing.…

Members of the group 'Last Generation' entered taxiways for aircraft at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Thursday afternoon. As a result, incoming flights were rerouted. In the evening, the airport was back in service.

While Ryanair is decreasing the number of flights it offers from and to BER Airport near Berlin, Eurowings is taking the opposite approach. From March of next…

The state-owned company that runs BER Airport, FBB, just decided to shut down former Schönefeld Airport permanently. It had served as BER's Terminal 5 for a…

A potentially dangerous situation developed at BER Airport last week. As the Aviation Herald reports, an EasyJet plane and an aircraft owned by Air France were about to use the same runway at the same time. A takeoff and a landing were aborted.

Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey is scheduled to name a Boeing 787 after the city she is governing. The 'Berlin' is quite an aircraft. Its owner,…

Less than two weeks after a first warning strike, pilots employed by Lufthansa's subsidiary Eurowings are about to go on strike again. This time, it is supposed…

Because of an "unjustified" increase of the fees BER Airport charges airlines, Ryanair will be decreasing its number of routes to Berlin and Brandenburg. According to the airline, those airport fees hurt Germany's tourism.