chumbawumba

Born in the Lufthansa section, there is a small, but exciting Do in Berlin Tempelhof.

With the following flights, you could make it directly to the Do:

Brussel (BRU) with Brussels Airline
SN 2581 dep. 9:45 am - arr. 11:10 am (Saturday)
SN 2588 dep. 6:55 pm - arr. 8:20 pm (Sunday)
Friedrichshafen (FDH) with Intersky
3L 300 dep. 6 am - arr. 7:55 am (Saturday)
3L 307 dep. 8 pm - arr. 9:35 pm (Sunday)
Graz (FDH) with Intersky
3L 803 dep. 12:15 pm - arr. 2 pm (!!!Friday!!!)
3L 804 dep. 2:25 pm - arr. 4:10 pm (Sunday)
Manheim (MHG) with Cirrus
C9 1560 dep. 7:45 am - arr. 9:00 am (Saturday)
C9 1567 dep. 4:30 pm - arr. 5:45 pm (Sunday)
Växjö (???) with Fly Smaland
2Q 390 dep. 9 am - arr. 10:25 am (!!!Friday!!!)
2Q 395 dep. 6:10 pm - arr. 7:35 pm (Sunday)

Else, fly to Tegel (TXL) or to Schönefeld (SXF). For Berliner, open the door, take the U-Bahn and behave as fans while we arrive.

Link to doodle for acknoledgement
Please be aware that the Guided Tour Berlin Tempelhof Airport and Fly with the Candy bomber must be booked by yourself! There is "First come, first serv!"

The current planing is as following:

• Mannheim MHG Pre-Flight Dinner(€ 50???)
• Guided Tour Berlin Tempelhof Airport (€ 12)
• Berlin Marathon Skate (€ ??)
• Guided Tour Berlin Brandenburg International Construction (€ 10) (Only in German language)
• Fly with the Candy bomber (€ 179) (optional)
• Regular Table in Berlin
• Brunch in UFA Werkstatt.
• Hotel will be booked by every one on its own, the current booking is IC Budapeststrasse and Möwenpick.

I will keep you updated when I know more.

Mannheim MHG Pre-Flight Dinner
steffen0212 made a nice selection of a possible Pre-Flight Dinner. Have a look at his post
Options:
Friday: 8 pm starting
Total duration: Open end
Cost: about 50 € (Euro)
Organisation: By steffen0212
All FTler arround Mannheim are invided to gather with us and have a nice evening.
Even if you do not come with us to Berlin Tempelhof, come along and make you vote here.

Guided Tour Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Options:
Saturday: none
Sunday: 11:30 am / 2 pm / 4:30 pm
Total duration: 120 min.
Cost: 12 € (Euro)
Organisation: By each one individually.
Sunday, 4:30pm is the preferred option by chumbawumba

Berlin Marathon Skate
Options:
Saturday: 4:30 pm
Sunday: none
Total duration: 120 min.
Cost: ?? € (Euro)
Organisation: By szg
Please, detain details from szg.

Guided Tour Berlin Brandenburg International Construction
Options:
Saturday: none
Sunday: 12:30 noon
Total duration: 120 min.
Cost: 10 € (Euro)
Organisation: By chumbawumba (25 seats booked)
Traveling: Starts from Airport Berlin Schönefeld (60 minutes from / to Berlin Tempelhof with public transport).
From Berlin Schönefeld, we will take the Bus, organized by the Company that runs the Berlin airports, to the new BBI airport.

Candy bomber
Options: (They will be available 3/4 weeks before departure)
Saturday: 3 pm / 4:30 pm or 6 pm
Sunday: 9:30 am / 11 am
Show starts 60 min. before departure.
Total duration: 120 min.
Flying time: 35 min.
Cost: 179 € (Euro)
Organisation: By each one individually.
Sunday, 9:30am is the preferred option by chumbawumba

Brunch in UFA Werkstatt
Options:
Saturday: morning / noon
Sunday: possible
Total duration: 120 min.
Cost: about 10 € (Euro)
Organisation: via MichaelFFM.
Saturday, about 9:00 am is the preferred option by chumbawumba

szg

I am booked for MHG-THF-MHG. I hope, we will have a lot FTs on our flight to have a big party in the air.

MichaelFFM

Pls. let me add some more information:

Pretty soon, one of the oldest passenger airports in Europe will be shut down and dessapaer forever as a 'land-mark' and will be taken away from timetables but hopefully not from memory.

Berlin Tempelhof (THF), survived World War II, the German dark ages of history, as well as the Cold-War, but now it's going to close by the end of October 2008.

Ths actually does not seem to be the right place to discuss these political matters and issues envolved,
however it still does exist and gets serviced by a couple of airlines. ( see above #1). Reason enough to get there for the last time and celebrate it's r requiem.


There's actually a lot to tell about this Airport, just to name a few basic facts:

- central hub for the Berlin Airlift in 1948-49 during the Berlin blockade
- longest solid building in Europe ( I always thought this would have been the A-Gate area in FRA )...
- first scheduled flight of "Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G." to Zurich in April 1926 ( who can't remember that !)
- quite interesting landing approach and procedure ( you will remember that !)


Michael

Aviatrix

I said my good-bye to THF in March... but I feel very tempted (never been to a Do but I guess there is always a first).

For anyone planning to attend I strongly recommend flying into THF itself rather than one of the other airports - it's quite an experience.

boxo

Hmmmm, I need to look at options ex-VIE...

boxo

Nevermind! $554 on SN!

No options on skyscanner or whichbudget.

chumbawumba

There are more options with Brussels Airline to Berlin, not only this flight I mentioned.

chumbawumba

If you are comming, could you please fill in your handel and what you are going to do in Berlin?
Here is the link to doodle.
Until now, there is one error on the doodle page. Sunday, the Candy Flyer will take until 11 am.

szg

There is still the System Failure.

Runabout

not sure if iam back from holidays at this time but if iam back (ill let ye know in time) i will definitely come.

szg

berlinflyer will be at Atlanta at this weekend.

steffen0212

Pre-Flight-Dinner-choices:

(sorry, it's german, but i'm going to translate it)

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Vote for it! Please vote also, if you cannot come.
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monitor

So close after the Salzburg DO .

@:-):-:@:-)But I do have an IC BOGO that I need to burn before 30Sept.

And Templehof is real history. ^

It is now on my radar.

chumbawumba

I have now a few ideas for the pre-flight dinner. Excludes I quite expensive restaurants (Sternegestronomie) and fairly simple (McDonalds, etc.).


Not quite cheap but very good food (my Stammkneipe):
Restaurant Corange
http://www.corange-restaurant.de/de/
Reviews
Prices:
3-course menu: EUR 32
3 course from the map: about EUR 60
Drinks: average prices


Also not cheap, but absolutely fabulous meal in genialem ambience:
KOI Restaurant
http://www.koi-mannheim.de/
Prices:
11-course menu: 49 EUR
There is no map of the man can order the food for all starts at 20.00 clock, if not a walk tastes can be against one of the vegetarian menu exchange.
Drinks: average prices
Entry into the club is for the restaurant guests.
This is the same concept as the Silk Concoon with the club in FRA.


Very tasty Italians:
Ristorante Costa Smeralda
http://www.restaurantcostasmeralda.com/
3-course menu: 22 EUR
3 course from the map: about 25 to 38 EUR
Drinks: average prices


The best sushi restaurant in the area:
Tokyo Sushi Bar
Reviews
Enough Sushi: approximately 20 to 25 EUR
Drinks: low prices


Good German cuisine to normal rates:
Eddes speciality restaurant phylloxera
http://www.schlemmerregion.de/rp_res...id=_0y8119zb7/
3 course from the map: about 25 to 35 EUR
Drinks: average prices


A little expensive for the performance but offered the best view:
Skyline Restaurant Mannheim
http://www.skyline-ma.de/
3-course menu: EUR 24
3 course from the map: about 30 to 40 EUR
Drinks: somewhat high prices
Elevator: $ 4.00

szg

But you can asked the RA Service Center, if they are willing to extend the BOGO.