Originally Posted by
caspritz78
A court in Germany just ended the last lawsuite against the new Berlin-Brandenburg-International Airport. It looks like finally the work can begin.
As much Tempelhof has historic value it is not really any longer pratical for commercial air traffic. I hope that they will keep the building and maybe use it as a museum or something. It would be really a shame if this historic monument on would be destroyed.
Tegel on the other hand could maybe used a similiar way like London City Airport but somehow I doubt that the demand of business travel in Berlin justifies two commerical airports. Berlin is not London.
Tempelhof's terminal building is classified as a historical landmark, and as such may not be torn down. It has to remain the way it is, whatever its future use will be. Tempelhof is much more interesting for the large area of open land where the runways now lie - that's very central land that could be used for any number of projects.
However, I disagree that Tempelhof no longer serves any commercial purpose - flights into there are brilliant in terms of the ease of getting into central Berlin, especially the government district. These flights are very popular with members of the
Bundestag, apparently. And don't forget that SN Brussels offers flights to Brussels which apparently also see a quite a lot of government traffic in both directions (German government employees and Brussels-based EU personnel).