Have you already booked your next holidays or are you still waiting for inspiration on where to go? How about the US metropolitan cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, to which airberlin will be organizing several scheduled flights a week, as from May 2017, directly from Berlin-Tegel Airport? Or if you have only an extended weekend available, we can recommend our new destinations in Eastern Europe: Iași in Romania and Chișinău in the Republic of Moldavia.
With the start of the summer flight schedules airberlin will be extending its flight offers from Berlin-Tegel to Paris, Tel Aviv, Poland and the USA. The two Polish metropolitan cities of Warsaw and Cracow will then each be flown to four times a day, while two flights a day will target the Mediterranean metropolitan city of Tel Aviv. Moreover, airberlin will be changing airports in Paris, flying as from 26th March four times daily to and from Charles-de-Gaulle.
On its long-distance connections in the USA, too, the airline will be notably extending its offer. New York will then be flown to twice a day and Miami five times a week. And as from May, the airline will offer direct flights between Berlin and the two US metropolitan cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Beginning on 1st June 2017, Blue Air will be flying three times a week from Berlin-Tegel to Iași in the north-east of Romania. This was once the most important city of the Principality of Moldavia. Many monuments, historical buildings and sites of cultural interest, as well as churches and monasteries, still testify to its past. Iași is also Romania's clandestine cultural capital. Art, galleries and exhibitions characterize the cityscape. The city's cultural symbol is the neo-Gothic “Palace of Culture”.
Beginning in the winter of 2017/2018, Germania will be flying from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport to three new warm-water destinations: Sharm el Sheikh, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria. Already since the end of January the airline has connected Schönefeld with the north Finnish town of Rovaniemi. Here, in the winter months, you can enjoy the polar lights, or you can pay a visit to Santa Claus - all year round. And as from 1st April 2017, Germania will be increasing its Schönefeld-Teheran connections, flying to the Iranian capital three times a week.
As from 26th March 2017, the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will be flying twice a week from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport to Chișinău. And since the flight takes little more than two hours, you can even discover the capital of the Republic of Moldavia over an extended weekend. Chișinău is well known for its parks, like the 200-year-old Ștefan cel Mare Park, which because of its bust of the poet in the “Avenue of the Classics” is also known as Pushkin Park. In the National Museum of Archaeology and History you can also gather insight into the country's eventful history.
In December 2016 a new terminal for arrivals was put into operation in Schönefeld. In TRIB´S Shop, in the public area, you can find not only an extensive range of food and beverages, but also books, newspapers, magazines, tobacco products and travelling requisites.
If you need more information on hotels and cultural highlights, the tourist information in the public area is exactly the right place to ask. Here you can also purchase tickets for the local public transport system. And directly next door at the ReiseBank you can acquire cash and traveller's cheques in the greatest variety of currencies.
With the exhibitions "Impressionismus. Die Kunst der Landschaft" (Impressionism: The Art of the Landscape) and "Klassiker der Moderne. Liebermann, Munch, Nolde, Kandinsky" (Classics of Modernism), the Barberini Art Museum has this month opened its doors in the historical centre of Potsdam. In view of the great interest shown, we recommend purchasing time slot tickets online in advance. This way you can enter the museum without any waiting time.
Attention cinema fans: since Tuesday the programme for the 67th "Berlinale", to be held from 9th until 19th February, is no longer unknown. In this year's competition, 18 of the 24 selected films will be competing for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards. And 22 of the films will be celebrating their world premières at the festival.