Berlin has two international airports that serve the city, Berlin Tegel and Berlin-Schönefeld.

BERLIN TEGEL AIRPORT
Berlin Tegel Airport is the closest to Berlin and is the airport used by major international carriers including the German companies, Lufthansa and Air Berlin. To get to Berlin from Tegel Airport is not a problem as the airport is almost within the city boundary. There are local trains and express trains that pass through Tegel Station but do not go to the actual airport itself.

However, the JetExpress TXL bus connects Tegel Airport to Beusselstraße S-Bahn station in only ten minutes and connects to the main railway station in Berlin, Berlin Hauptbahnhof station, in about twenty minutes.

The X9 is a bus route that connects Tegel Airport to the heart of Berlin and bus 109 goes from Tegel Airport to Jakob-Kaiser Platz U-Bahn station in little more than five minutes. The 109 also goes from Tegel Airport to Charlottenburg S-Bahn and the Regional Express station, in just under twenty-five minutes; and the 109 takes a little over half an hour to get from Tefel Airport to the Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn/S-Bahn/Regional Express station. Tickets for all the buses can be bought at the airport or at ticket machines by the bus stops.

BERLIN SCHÖNEFELD AIRPORT
Berlin-Schönefeld Airport is south of Berlin and was once the airport that served East Berlin and the DDR. Today, Berlin-Schönefeld Airport is mostly used by budget airlines such as EasyJet and Germanwings.

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport is served by Flughafen railway station and trains into the heart of Berlin run every ten minutes. The Airport Express offers the fastest service into the city; trains run every half hour with a journey time of about twenty-five minutes to Ostbahnhof, Alexanderplatz, thirty minutes to Friedrichstraße, Hauptbahnhof, and thirty-six minutes to the Zoologischer Garten. The price of tickets for the fast trains is the same as for the slower trains. Taxi journeys from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport to the city centre take about half an hour.

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