Berlin Schönefeld Airport: Good-bye BBI, Welcome BER

Finally. The aiport opening is scheduled for 3 June 2012 and the baby got the right name: BBI. Probably for the last 5 years people have been asking why they are still calling the new Schönefeld airport BBI, since this IATA code is long gone. It is the name of the Indian airport of Bhubaneswar.

How many names does BER actually have? Which is the middle name? Let's see:

BBI Berlin Airport: No Hub For Lufthansa

Suprising news were published in May when Lufthansa said they would not invest into an expansion in Berlin; Frankfurt and Munich would be more than enough, but they would speak to their Star Alliance partners to fly to Berlin. In the past Lufthansa had said right the opposite. The new airport in Schönefeld, close to Berlin will open in June 2012. Last week the company had said that they want to "be more active in Berlin", but a decision would be taken in summer. What exactly does that now mean? More important: how will that influence the arrival and departure flight routes over the city. This is a subject that annoyed many Berliners that after many years of