Connecting two Central European capitals
Berlin and Warsaw are linked by one of Central Europe’s most established short-haul corridors, and this 15-minute flight recreates the full journey between them in a Boeing 737 MAX. Rather than a single highlight clip, the video covers departure from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) through to arrival at Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW), giving a complete picture of a route flown daily by real narrow-body traffic.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 renders both airports and the terrain between them from real-world geographic data, so the departure and arrival sequences reflect the actual layout of BER and WAW.
The route
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) serves as Germany’s capital gateway, while Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) is Poland’s busiest, sitting close to the city center. The roughly 500-kilometer crossing between them takes the aircraft over the North German Plain and into western Poland, giving the simulator room to render a steady change in terrain and city layouts along the way.
Why the 737 MAX
As with the channel’s other mainline routes, the Boeing 737 MAX is a natural fit for this kind of established, high-frequency European corridor — a heavier, more structured aircraft than the light general-aviation types used elsewhere on the channel, and well suited to a full capital-to-capital crossing.
Watch the flight
The full Berlin-to-Warsaw crossing is embedded above, or watch it directly on YouTube.
Related flights
For more of Poland, see the Beskid & Brenna flightseeing route and the flight over Ruda Śląska; for more 737 MAX flying, see the Frankfurt takeoff and the Barcelona–Mallorca crossing, all linked below.
