Wojtek
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Joel Schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I love Tegel. I use it all the time. But the coffee is absolutely abysmal.
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> Joel
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> On Apr 4, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/world/europe/berlin-is-getting-a-new-airport-but-many-prefer-the-old.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
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>> “I think it’s terrible,” said Yaver Karablut, a frequent flier who far
>> prefers Tegel, the airport in the former West Berlin scheduled to
>> close when the new one opens. With a sigh, Mr. Karablut ticked off the
>> reasons: Tegel is easier to get to and to navigate. “I really think
>> it’s a shame,” he said.
>>
>> Designed in 1965 according to the short-lived “drive to your gate”
>> concept, Tegel’s narrow building is shaped like a hexagon. Cars can
>> travel along the inner sides, and airplanes dock along the outer
>> sides. Each gate has its own yellow fiberglass check-in counter, so
>> taxi and airplane are separated by about 100 feet.
>>
>> [WS:] Tegel is a funny airport - quite minimalist for the capital of
>> a major European power. In that respect, it it reminiscent of Bonn -
>> a sleepy provincial town that used to be the the capital of the
>> Federal Republic (prior to the unification.) Both Tegel and Bonn
>> create an illusion of visiting Disneyland - where structures are
>> scaled down to create a sense of gemuetlichkeit - yet they are fully
>> functional real-life places, not theme parks created for
>> entertainment.
>>
>> Read more at http://wsokol.blogspot.com/2012/04/auf-wiedersehen-tegel.html
>>
>> Wojtek
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