As I am sure most have you heard, Berlin’s new airport will have a delay in it’s opening. Originally scheduled to open on June 3, it has now been postponed for potentially months.
I have just arrived in London after having a splendid time in Istanbul. I have lots to write about, and about 900 photos to scour and choose from for my trip reports. I’m just catching up on the developments of Berlin’s airport delay so if I find anything new, I’ll post an entry later today or tomorrow. Most of the news was breaking while we were in transit so I have to get caught up!!
I’m disappointed because I am planning on being in Frankfurt on May 31 for the ceremonies surrounding the 747-8i’s entry into service and as part of my plans I was scheduled to be on the very last flight into Schoenefeld(SXF) and also was already booked to be on the very first flight out of Berlin’s new airport on June 3 aboard a specially scheduled A380 flight from Berlin to Frankfurt.
Looks like I have some minor re-planning to do!!
Looks like they have pulled their LH countdown to BER opening microsite (with its weekly competitions) that you mentioned in a previous post.
@Carl:
The last flight was scheduled into SXF so it would be avaiable for the first flight out of BER without having to ferry it from TXL to BER.
@carl – no, it was the last scheduled flight into sxf…..
Are you sure you aren’t flying in TXL instead of SXF? SXF doesn’t see very many flights from western destinations.
You can’t beat TXL’s close-in location.
Bummer….flying back home from a biz/pleasure trip in Germany in early June. Was really excited about flying out of a brand new airport. Have never flown out of Tegel but have heard it is pretty awful.
British Airways still think they are flying to the new airport when I go in mid-June.
Sorry to hear that, as I know you have really been looking forward to it.
The only consolation for me, however, is that I’ll likely be in Germany now when BER opens.
Ugh-sorry to hear, I was going to book a flight into the new airport to check it out on an upcoming scheduled trip to Germany, looks like I’m out of luck as well.