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Great transit links? Not by airplane in my experience. Also, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich are closer to other large, rich European cities. Berlin is dreary and
by yequalsx 15y ago
Great transit links? Not by airplane in my experience. Also, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich are closer to other large, rich European cities. Berlin is dreary and, in my opinion, a clusterfuck. Obviously my judgment is clouded by the fact that I don't like Berlin. My girlfriend lives in Berlin and so I spend way more time there than I otherwise would. Don't get me started on Kruezburg.
- platzhirsch 15y agoThe airplane transit links are likely to get a lot better when the new aiport opens in this summer.
- saryant 15y agoI wouldn't be so sure. Unless Lufthansa decides to make the new BER a hub (unlikely with FRA and MUC already playing that role) it probably won't see much more transatlantic traffic than it already gets. United already has a nonstop to NYC and I think that's BER's only North American destination. Unless a lot more SF companies open up in Berlin I think they'll just have to make due with the SFO-FRA/MUC nonstops and connect from there.
- sneak 15y agoBER is indeed intended to be a Lufthansa hub, on par with the others you mentioned, at least according to my airtravel-nerd girlfriend - I'd link you if I had the source. A flag carrier with two major hubs that also operates a non-hub in the shiny new airport in the Bundeshauptstadt? Doesn't make sense to me, either. Also, presumably the Continental 5-plus-times-a-week TXL-EWR will be moved over to BER when it opens, as well.
- saryant 15y agoI'm sure it will as I believe TXL will be closed, right? ;) I'm looking forward to seeing the new BER this summer when I visit Berlin.