Berlin Brandenburg Airport Terminal 2

Terminal 2 has been in use since March 2022 and handles low-cost carriers including Ryanair and Wizz Air. Arrivals are on level E0. So far it reads like any other terminal.

Here is the part that is not on the map: Terminal 2 has no taxi rank, no railway station and no pickup lane of its own. Not a limited one, not a quieter one — none. Everybody who leaves Terminal 2 by road leaves via Terminal 1, and the only question is whether they knew that before they walked out of the door with their luggage.

The connection is a covered walkway of about ten minutes at a normal pace, or a free shuttle bus running every five to ten minutes. Ten minutes is not a hardship. Ten unexpected minutes at 23:00 in February, after a delayed Ryanair flight, with somebody circling a car park they are being charged for, is a different thing — and that is the situation this page exists to prevent.

Because road pickup happens at Terminal 1, that is where your driver is: inside the level E0 arrivals hall with a name sign. We do not ask you to find a car at Terminal 2, because there is nowhere at Terminal 2 for a car to be.

The walk or the shuttle is yours to make either way, whoever collects you. What a pre-booked transfer removes is the second problem — arriving at Terminal 1 to find the taxi rank has emptied, which after a late low-cost bank is a real possibility rather than a theoretical one.

The usual "wrong terminal" worry is inverted here. If your flight is moved to Terminal 1, that is unambiguously good news — you are already where the cars are. If it moves the other way, allow the ten minutes. Either way we take the terminal from the live flight, so the driver is in the right hall before you reach it.