[lbo-talk] Tegel airport

[John Wesley]

...and interestingly enough Tegel' s period of highest use came when Bonn was the capital of West Germany!

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 From: Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 12:20 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Tegel airport

  
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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