Originally Posted by
silverkris168
Frankfurt am Main isn't actually all that large a city by German standards but it is Germany's finance center (nickname is "Bankfurt").
Actually, by German standards it's pretty big (#5), but by international standards it's fairly small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...00_inhabitants
And note on the map on the Wikipedia page where there are and aren't red dots indicating cities with at least 100K residents. Yeah, Berlin is a big city, but Brandenburg is pretty sparsely populated.
Originally Posted by
silverkris168
Yes, Berlin is larger but its postwar political status really didn't make it a hub for air travel. In fact, for the most part airlines like the late Pan Am (and not LH) controlled most of the flights out of Berlin, similiar to how the US, British and French controlled the West Berlin sectors.
Indeed. I think the only airlines allowed to fly to West Berlin were US, French, or UK airlines. PanAm sold its intra-Germany routes to Lufthansa around the time of reunification.