Not that I know of, but it is possible. I wouldn't want to book two seperate tickets with only a 2.5 hr connection.

Trying to use all the miles going business class. AA was the one who suggested paying for TK airlines (they charged and emailed the tickets) from IST to BER, then AB business miles from BER to LAX.

Not true. Every Travelagent can do that in seconds.

Exception maybe award travel.

Otherwise you may consider the ticktetsave insurance.

What is that? Some way to protect yourself on booking two seperate tickets?

ARD Tagesthemen just reported a new date of October 2013 - probably start of winter schedule (this is my opinion).

Yes.

Announcement was in the news in Germany over a week ago that Brandenburg will be delayed until OCober of 2013. Both AB and TK not only haven't changed the tickets but are still selling to BER prior to the new date.

Two days ago, TK switched to the TXL airport instead of BER, today we got notice that AB switched to TXL as well. Same flight time, same flight numbers. Yeah!

The opening of BER (Berlin/Brandenburg International) airport is AGAIN postponed without an exact new opening date. It will probably be either in 2014 or 2015, they say...

To be honest: If you leave a house unoccupied for such a duration you can almost surely take it down, because it starts to rot. This one even started rotting before it was finished. Take it down and start from scratch...

Just my two cents...

Yeah, the incompetence of various policitians, agencies and companies involved is just mindboggling.

I like the idea of tearing the building down, but as far as I am concerned there�s no need to rebuild it.

Here are reports about BER in German newpapers SZ, FAZ, and Spiegel

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/u...acht-1.1566403

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaf...-12016571.html

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutsc...-a-876045.html

Unbelievable that they are unable to finish is project and the amount of failures is mind-boggling, indeed.

This is very unlike German. Who is stopping BER to open? Can not imagine if it is the bureaucracy of Berlin. Must be some conspiracy here.

no conspiracy, just plain old sloppiness and nobody stepping up and assuming responsibility - very typical for Berlin state politics. The airport is state-owned, and all supervisory committee staff is - politicians.
The airport was built with blatant disregard to the fire safety provisions specified in the building permit (OK, such things happened in the past with public infrastructure projects), and authorities refused to approve this, grant an exception and let it open anyway (this is new - but to be expected after the '96 DUS fire with two terminals destroyed and 17 killed, which led to toughened regulations. Overseeing authority just would not budge). They have to re-do the whole fire prevention concept, which is not easy with everything already built and in place.

Here's some coverage in English: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130107-47175.html

I don't care much - I like TXL. OK, it's overcrowded and getting pretty seedy as nothing is invested in it at all any more, but it's still so much closer to the city center. Actually, I still lament the closure of THF - out of the plane and into the subway in ten, at my destination in twenty minutes...

Saw this article linked to on the BA forum:

Berliner Morgenpost article (in German)


My German isn't good, but there is a scary number in it:

2017


(not an official date, just an expert's speculation)

This gents statements seem politically motivated. And he is basically claiming that BER cannot handle the expected passenger numbers and therefore should be torn down, replanned and rebuilt