I had a flight booked to arrive there for late 2012! BA990 LHR to BER. It was switched back to TXL around 2 months prior, so wasn't exactly a surprise ;-) Have flown in and out of Tegel many times subsequently, and will likely get through there at least once more!
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Flew into Tegel 2 times in the last couple of weeks, and once out, and once out of Schönefeld. Much prefer Schönefeld, Tegel is way past it's use by date.
I was thinking exactly the opposite. Tegel was bearable but Schonefeld is absolutely miserable with long queues, limited seating options and one very bad PP lounge.
I would dearly have loved to have flown in and out of Templehof.
The sorry saga really just reinforces the German prioritisation of quality: in many places around the world the airport would have just been opened by a demanding politician, hang the problems. They would have tried to solve them incrementally whilst operating probably without a care that fire systems didn't work properly or that elements might be structurally unsound... Maybe that's just a larger appetite for risk in those 'other' countries. Or the convenient presence of appropriate fall guy(s) if the risk did manifest itself and something bad did happen.
Maybe light at the end of the (long, long) tunnel
Berlin airport October 2020 opening “on schedule” – Business Traveller
The much-delayed airport was originally scheduled to open in 2011…www.businesstraveller.com
I would be skeptical...
I just finished listening to the podcast series mentioned in the BBC article and found it really interesting and informative. I loved the part where they discovered there was an escalator with a passport control booth right at the end.
There is light at the end of the (very long) tunnel.
AFF meet up on the 31st Oct 2020 at BER then?
AFF meet up on the 31st Oct 2020 at BER then?
I’ll be in that, too. But I might wait awhile before starting a thread. Maybe October 1 2020.I'll believe it when I see it!
But if BER does indeed open on 31 October 2020, I will be there.
There is light at the end of the (very long) tunnel.