Flying safely

Numerous measures within the terminals as well as during security checks and when boarding ensure that that passengers’ health is safeguarded when flying from BER, including under coronavirus conditions. Floor markings, plexiglass panels and touch-free dispensers for hand disinfection help passengers to comply with hygiene rules. Passengers also receive the latest information regarding hygiene regulations via monitors and announcements in the terminal. 

• Procedures such as check-in and security checks aim to be contactless as far as possible. Passengers are therefore asked to check in online and download their boarding pass directly to their smartphone, for example. 
  
• Please check the entry requirements for your destination well in advance of your departure and have all the required documentation ready at check-in. A good, although not legally binding, overview is available on the following websites:
  
  https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php
  
  https://reopen.europa.eu/de
  
  
• Where possible, please bring only one piece of hand baggage to the security checks.

We recommend that arriving and departing passengers, as well as people collecting passengers and visitors to the airport, wear a medical mask and – wherever possible – keep their distance from other people. 

Passengers and visitors can be tested for the Covid-19 virus by means of PCR tests and rapid antigen tests at Terminal 1 of BER.

Symptomatic individuals contact their primary care physician or established Art. The test center at the airport is not to be used.

Asymptomatic persons (i.e. persons without symptoms) with a positive self-test or rapid test can visit the Test Center at the airport for PCR retesting (according to §4b of the Coronavirus- Test Regulation)

Test centre on arrival level E0 for express PCR tests, antigen tests and citizen tests

The test centre on level E0 is open daily from 4.00 am to 10.30 pm. It is operated by Medicare. The test centre is open to passengers and visitors. Tests can be carried out from 0 years of age; children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The test offered are:

• Express PCR tests (validated SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test) with the result within 20-45 mins.
• PCR tests with the result generally within 24-36 hours.
• Antigen tests and free citizen tests within the result within 15 mins.

Information regarding the currently valid prices and the process from registration to the test result can be found on the operator’s website:

www.covid-testzentrum.de/berlin-airport

All persons entering the Federal Republic of Germany by air must present the carrier with a negative test result, proof of vaccination or proof of having recovered prior to departure. This requirement applies regardless of where they have travelled from.

You can find detailed information regarding travel restrictions and the latest rules concerning possible exceptions on the German Federal Foreign Office website.

High risk areas and virus variant areas are defined and published by the RKI

Please note that due to the dynamic development of the situation, changes in regulations may occur at short notice. If in doubt, the latest legal wording of the respective state ordinances or of the German Federal Ministry of Health always apply.

• The latest information regarding developments is issued by the Robert Koch Institute.
• Answers to frequently asked questions about the coronavirus are provided by the German Federal Centre for Health Education.
  
  Detailed information on contact restrictions and quarantine measures of the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg:
  
• Berlin federal state information platform
• Brandenburg federal state information platform
• Information from the German Federal Ministry of the Interior regarding travel restrictions and border controls
• Detailed information regarding coronavirus from the German Federal Ministry of Health.