{"id":1295,"date":"2026-02-06T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:38:09","slug":"flights-resume-at-berlin-international-airport-after-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1295\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights resume at Berlin international airport after standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flight operations at Berlin&#8217;s international airport resumed on Friday after being suspended since the previous evening due to severe weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The airport was officially cleared for operations at midday, with the first departure taking off for Amsterdam shortly before 1 pm (1200 GMT), an airport spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Operations are now being ramped up gradually, though passengers should continue to expect delays and cancellations, the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No aircraft had been able to take off or land at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) since Thursday evening because of black ice and persistent freezing rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Operations also remained suspended on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Overnight, the airport&#8217;s winter maintenance crews treated runways and other operational areas with de-icing agents, but conditions initially remained too slippery for flights, according to reports earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Berlin has been experiencing a weeks-long period of cold weather combined with snow and freezing rain, causing major transport disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight operations at Berlin&#8217;s international airport resumed on Friday after being suspended since the previous evening due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[1760,112,1761,1054,190,1764,1762,1763],"class_list":{"0":"post-1295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-ber-airport","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-berlin-brandenburg-airport","11":"tag-flight-operations","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-international-airport","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-the-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}