Berlin Tegel - inconvenient interim solution
Monday morning in Berlin. A major trade fair is causing traffic jams. It takes 65 minutes by cab to drive 32 kilometers from the InterCity Hotel Brandenburg, located at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, to Berlin Tegel. The new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BER) is located right next to Schönefeld. But it is a long time coming. The opening was actually planned for October 2011. Then, due to technical defects, it was June 2012, March 2013 and now October 27, 2013 is being mentioned - along with additional costs of over one billion euros. There is even talk of BER becoming insolvent...
The fiasco surrounding the delayed opening of "BER" will therefore continue to occupy travelers and airlines.
airlines, and the existing Tegel Airport will have to muddle along with an extended flight schedule. And this will be felt by
travelers are feeling the effects. It's tight at Tegel Airport. 11.30 a.m., the cab lane is full. On the green areas in front of the terminal, it looks like India or Africa, where huge numbers of passengers prefer to wait outside rather than in the stuffy halls. In the building itself, seating is in short supply in the narrow areas of Tegel at this time of day. What will it be like here during the morning departure peaks? In front of the Air Berlin counter for USA flights, the queue of people waiting impedes the dense flow of passengers. The way to Air Berlin Terminal Area C, another patchwork of extended terminal areas, is correspondingly tedious. Passengers everywhere. At counter 65 for the Air Berlin flight to Linz, there is a zero-minute wait.
The number of staff must really have been increased. The security check is also quick and the waiting time in the gate area is quite bearable. The fact that Germanwings is also moving its flights from Schoenefeld to Tegel so that they can be better coordinated with Lufthansa, as they should have been long ago, will increase the density of passenger flows. The good thing about Tegel is that it is close to the city center. A cab to the ICC exhibition center, where the ITB takes place, costs less than 20 euros. From the new BER airport, it will be around 40 euros for the 22 km.
Kurt Hofmann
(September 2012)
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