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From: Joel Schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Tegel airport
That's not surprising. I expect the new airport will be more like Munich. Glitzy, lots of food courts, and efficient.
Joel
On Apr 4, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> And expensive. We once missed a flight there, and Lufthansa gave us a
> food voucher for 20 euro to use before the next flight. I thought of
> a lunch, but all we got for it was two mediocre coffees and a tiny
> plain sandwich.
>
> Wojtek
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> 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
>>>
>>> “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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