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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.
Hi, Tegel was my favorite airport ever, domestic and international.
This was posted twice already here, the oldest copy is from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765193 - wasn't able to find a date for the podcast itself but maybe it would be better to put [201?] in the title?
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Nowadays I have to arrive 3-4hrs before This is true many places, although I tend to show with a tighter timetable myself. But it's so absurd, so silly. It's actually faster to drive from Ottawa to Toronto(4 to 5 hr drive) than take a plane, and cheaper.. even with current fuel costs, too. What a way to ruin a mode of travel.
To me it's absurd that flying such a short distance apparently was an attractive option (to some) until recently.
A propeller plane shines here. If boarding is quick, and there is no customs as it is in country, and you just carry on? You save time, and it's better than 20 to 50 people driving independantly.
A plane can also fly straight too, so it can take even 1/3 of the time to get there.
Which is why boarding slow downs are so sad.
Arguably off topic, but having suffered through BER several times, I have a few tips to share which might reduce your own suffering. First: post-security you will find some of the most disgusting food ever served in an airport, but hey it’s also expensive and the servers don’t hide how much they hate being there! However, there is a little shop near the left-side stairs that sells better alcohol as well as soft drink…
Oh this is an article about how someone else screwed up an airport? I was hoping to learn how to mess them up myself :(
1. Buy tickets to a bunch of flights on any day.
2. Check-in luggage with a raspberry pi inside with a bunch of electronics coming out of it and two powered 8 segment displays.
3. Do not board any of those planes.
All those planes will be delayed while they remove your checked luggage from the hold since nowadays planes don't take-off with luggage if the traveller doesn't also board. With all planes delayed you can probably choke the runways and delay all departures.
Couple of anecdotes - the baggage handling design (I saw the revised version) was shuttling suitcases easily above 25 miles/hour and the architects had them drop through chutes at such high speeds
Much later, with the youtube era, I came across the various conspiracies on DIA. Good for a bored late night browsing
Arguably off topic, but having suffered through BER several times, I have a few tips to share which might reduce your own suffering. First: post-security you will find some of the most disgusting food ever served in an airport, but hey it’s also expensive and the servers don’t hide how much they hate being there! However, there is a little shop near the left-side stairs that sells better alcohol as well as soft drink…
And I've missed the last RE to HbF a few times (EasyJet being late often) but the last S-Bahn runs surprisingly late. Same in the morning, you can take the very first U-Bahn at the dawn of the day among drunk people going home, and do the last bit by bus. I never needed a taxi.
When I lived there, TXL was still operating, and showing up 3 minutes before the gate opened was an also interesting experience. But I understand people in the neighborhood being fed up it closed down 10 years late.
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?