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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by anamexis »

bobthepanda wrote: post #45
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

The same architect who designed Tegel did BER. Sometimes, past performance is not indicative of the future.

I don't know, given the experience at Tegel, I'd say past performance is very indicative of future. What a terrible airport that was.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by bobthepanda »

dzikimarian wrote: post #59
bobthepanda wrote: post #45

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The same architect who designed Tegel did BER. Sometimes, past performance is not indicative of the future.

Well Tegel with multiple security checks during transfers isn't pinnacle of good communication either.

Security checks didn't really exist when Tegel opened in 1974. So the architect can at least be excused for not knowing about future requirements.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by anamexis »

pizza234 wrote: post #41
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

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> in full service Have you been there? It’s a bit of a weird ghost-town. Definitely not quite in ‘full service.’

I've been there a short time ago, and had an approximately 30 minutes of security queue, so I wouldn't classify it as ghost town :)

As Berlin's only airport, people are obviously flying out of it. But huge portions of the airport are very obviously unfinished.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by Roguelike »

mattcaldwell wrote: post #67
qolop wrote: post #65

Why can't such interesting articles be published without the unnecessary profanity? It actually prevents me from sharing it with a lot of people.

The world is falling apart and people are still worried about harmless words. Talk about misplaced concerns...

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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by vishnugupta »

bobthepanda wrote: post #45
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

The same architect who designed Tegel did BER. Sometimes, past performance is not indicative of the future.

I’ve been to some bad airports but by God Tegel is by far the worst I’ve ever been to.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by labster »

ginko wrote: post #47
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput. Continuous integration?

Communist International

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

xcambar wrote: post #40
chrisseaton wrote: post #16

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> functioning like a well-oiled machine and was loved by the city population You can’t possibly mean Tegel? I’ve never met anyone who has used Tegel who didn’t think it was clearly the worst airport in the world. I used to literally avoid doing any business in Berlin because Tegel was so painful.

> I used to literally avoid doing any business in Berlin because Tegel was so painful. I don't believe you. No business owner is their right mind would believe that you avoided doing business anywhere based on airport opinions.

Unless it should turn out that not every type of business in the world is like every other type, and there are significant enough differences in some branch of a business that you might structure your business based on airport options.

Like a traveling salesman maybe.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by martinald »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #63
martinald wrote: post #43

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Not really in the UK. There wasn't any special package for airports/airlines, just the standard furlough scheme. Plus the international travel restrictions were absolutely ridiculous and literally changing day to day (for absolutely no benefit, as nowhere in Europe was running zero covid, so it literally may have saved a few days of virus growth).

In the UK the standard furlough scheme was as generous as it gets.

For most sectors yes it was. For airlines and airports it wasn't as helpful, as the sector had very low demand throughout the whole pandemic, minus a couple of 'false start' months.

Compare this to busses and trains who got furlough PLUS a very generous package to cover nearly all of their running costs.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by arez »

anamexis wrote: post #71
bobthepanda wrote: post #45

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The same architect who designed Tegel did BER. Sometimes, past performance is not indicative of the future.

I don't know, given the experience at Tegel, I'd say past performance is very indicative of future. What a terrible airport that was.

what? Tegel was the best airport ever, you could literally be there 20min before check-in and still get your plane. Nowadays I have to arrive 3-4hrs before, tegel was a blessing a true king of all airports, all hail tegel
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