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End of legend: Berlin-Tegel Airport, TXL for short, is saying goodbye.
The airport has been closed to the public since Sunday afternoon - 60 years after it opened as a civil airport.
As with the first scheduled flight on January 2, 1960, the French airline AirFrance provided the aircraft for the historic flight on Sunday.
It was the last departure from Tegel - including the farewell ceremony.
The airport fire brigade guided flight AF 1235 with water fountains to the last take-off.
Airport employees accompany the departure from the edge of the runway.
On the visitor terrace, hundreds of onlookers bid farewell to the French Airbus A320 heading for Paris.
For many, it's an emotional moment.
"Lots of flights to different parts of the world. You've been through everything and of course that's already a sad farewell."
"It is very emotional. And it is completely incomprehensible, I believe, for everyone that a city airport is closed. But well, these are the modern times and then it has to be like that."
Tegel Airport held out, said airport boss Engelbert Lütke Daldrup before the last departure - despite total congestion in recent years.
Originally, it was supposed to close in 2012 and be replaced by Berlin Brandenburg Airport, or BER for short.
Almost ten years late, it opened at the end of October, about 30 kilometers south of Tegel, and is now set to become the new Berlin hub.