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On Monday 22 February 2021, Ryanair flight FR 1012 from Rome taxied into BER Terminal T5 at midday. The aircraft was to be the last aircraft to be handled in the former East German (DDR) Schönefeld Airport Terminal.
An open-day was held on September 2 2023 in order for the local community, as well as the general public to say goodbye to the Terminal, which had been mothballed and was still operational. After which the lights went out, the fittings dismantled and the Terminal decommissioned.
Seventeen airlines had used the re-named Terminal 5 since the opening of BER, However, due to the coronavirus crisis and the low passenger numbers, the Terminal was closed, initially for a year from February 2021. Flight operations were concentrated at Terminal T1 in order to save costs. Dahme-Spreewald district council (LDS) used T5 as a temporary immigration centre and refugees from Ukraine found initial accommodation there. New Terminal T2 opened in spring 2022, and on 18 November, the Airport's Supervisory Board (FBB) decided that Terminal T5 would be decommissioned, with the German Museum of Technology in Berlin taking over valuable fittings such as counters, panels and signs.
Terminal T5 is now part of an ideas competition organised by architects and urban planners for the redevelopment of the site. A new, lively(sic) urban quarter is to be created on the site of the former airport. The first ideas were presented in November 2023.