Every BER Destination on One Distance Line, and What a Delay Is Worth
A delayed flight out of Berlin pays 250, 400 or 600 euro, and the number is decided by the great circle distance to your final destination and by whether that airport is inside the EU. This plots all 157 scheduled BER destinations on one line with both legal boundaries drawn. Search for your city, say how late you landed, and it gives the band and the reason.
Distances are the great circle distances Regulation 261/2004 uses, computed from published airport coordinates. The route list was checked on 7 September 2026: 79 destinations pay 250 euro, 69 pay 400 euro and only 9 reach 600 euro.
Standing at a BER gate watching the board say Delayed with no new time, almost everyone reaches for the same half-remembered figure of 600 euro. Very few flights out of Berlin are worth that. The regulation pays by distance, and it puts every intra-EU flight over 1,500 kilometres into the 400 euro band no matter how long it is, so Tenerife at 3,669 kilometres pays 400 while Dubai at 4,613 kilometres pays 600. This line shows the whole network at once. Type your destination, pick how late you actually landed, and it gives the amount with the reason behind it. It is a guide to the bands, not legal advice, and nothing is owed until the arrival delay passes three hours.
What this tool does
It places all 157 scheduled destinations from Berlin Brandenburg Airport on a single distance axis, coloured by the compensation band each one falls into, with the 1,500 and 3,500 kilometre boundaries drawn as the regulation defines them. Search for where you were flying to, and your route lights up in the row of ticks. Then say whether you landed under three hours late, three to four hours late, or more than four hours late, and it returns the amount per passenger with the reason it lands in that band.
Why distance decides everything
Regulation 261/2004 does not care how long you waited in the terminal. It pays 250 euro for journeys up to 1,500 kilometres, 400 euro for intra-EU journeys above that and all other journeys up to 3,500 kilometres, and 600 euro for what is left. Measured across the BER network that comes out at 79 routes on 250 euro, 69 on 400 euro and just 9 on 600 euro. The 1,500 kilometre line also falls in an empty gap: nothing BER flies sits between Bordeaux at 1,336 kilometres and Thessaloniki at 1,500.5 kilometres.
The intra-EU rule most people miss
An intra-EU flight never reaches the 600 euro band, however long it is. Tenerife South is 3,669 kilometres from Berlin, further than Cairo, and it still pays 400 euro because the Canary Islands are Spanish. Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Funchal work the same way. The nine BER routes that genuinely reach 600 euro all leave the union: Jeddah, both Dubai airports, Abu Dhabi, Montreal, New York, Newark, Toronto and Beijing.
What it will not tell you
It cannot judge your particular case. It does not know whether the airline will claim an extraordinary circumstance, whether a cancellation was announced more than 14 days ahead, or whether you were rerouted in a way that halves a long haul payout. It also assumes the arrival delay is measured to your final destination on one booking, which is how the regulation works but not always how an airline first answers. Use it to know the number before you talk to a desk.