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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by ben_w »

TedShiller wrote: post #87
chrisseaton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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’ve never met anyone who has used Tegel who didn’t think it was clearly the worst airport in the world Well, you've met one (or actually, many) now. So you won't be able to use that line moving forward.

I loved how compact Tegel terminal A was, it was like London City Airport rolled into a ring. The other terminals I used (I never bothered memorising which ones) were generic and forgettable.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by selimthegrim »

labster wrote: post #77
ginko wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Communist International

The passengers having lost the confidence of the airport, the airport has decided to dissolve them and elect others.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by vesinisa »

Moto7451 wrote: post #39
vesinisa wrote: post #21

This podcast is outdated, right? It talks about the Brandenburg airport as if it had not finished. The deeply troubled airport is in fact open and in full service since 2020.

It’s in fact not finished. If you go to the website you will find out they have only opened three of the five terminals. They took the old neighboring airport and have temporarily named that “Terminal 5.” I was just there on Friday and it was amazing how unfinished things are. Panels missing, no seating near some gates. It’s a very nice mall that happens to have airplane gates. Really though, the airport’s homepage s…

Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by merb »

vesinisa wrote: post #103
Moto7451 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s in fact not finished. If you go to the website you will find out they have only opened three of the five terminals. They took the old neighboring airport and have temporarily named that “Terminal 5.” I was just there on Friday and it was amazing how unfinished things are. Panels missing, no seating near some gates. It’s a very nice mall that happens to have airplane gates. Really though, the airport’s homepage s…

Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..

well the seperate airport is basically on the other side and was already in full rename at around ~2018. (I was there and it was crammed...)

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by rsynnott »

arez wrote: post #80
anamexis wrote: post #71

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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

It was… not great if you were coming from outside Schengen. I was there maybe three times, coming from Dublin; twice, only one of the passport desks was staffed (they also had the machines, but I never saw them in working order). Both times, of course, someone ahead of me in the queue had some problem, and it took an hour to get through passport control. Never seen this at any other airport.

Schonefeld was better, though getting there involved taking Ryanair…

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by yeetsFromHellL3 »

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?

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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by jansan »

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?

Confuse-A-Cat

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by sgustard »

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?

Crustacean independence

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by jansan »

One other thing is how they were lying about progress. We had tickets to land on the new airport in 2013! The shops had ordered their inventory, bus companies and taxi companies had purchased new vehicles, and the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit acted as if completions was still on schedule. What an absolute desaster.

On the bright side, as long as the BER could not open, the international aviation show ILA was absolutely amazing, because they were able to use the infrastructure without having to care for ongoing air traffic.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by michaelcampbell »

vesinisa wrote: post #103
Moto7451 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s in fact not finished. If you go to the website you will find out they have only opened three of the five terminals. They took the old neighboring airport and have temporarily named that “Terminal 5.” I was just there on Friday and it was amazing how unfinished things are. Panels missing, no seating near some gates. It’s a very nice mall that happens to have airplane gates. Really though, the airport’s homepage s…

Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..

I've read that Seal Team 6 was named that to throw off foreign adversaries to think that the US had 6 teams at the time.
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