Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults
If I may take an opinion on this having lived in Berlin for 2 years, perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this is that this new airport isn&#x27;t just like a better, fancier one that&#x27;ll replace an already adequate airport(s) - Berlin&#x27;s existing airports (Tegel the &#x27;main&#x27; one and Schonefeld the secondary) are, to put it mildly, an embarrassment for the captial city of Europe&#x27;s biggest economy.<p>They are quite simply awful, way over capacity, bad facilities, and also pretty inconvenient public transport links (Tegel especially). I honestly would rate both of them poorly if they were <i>regional</i> airports. Indeed, you&#x27;d be hard pressed to find a regional airport anywhere in Europe as bad as these.<p>It makes flying in and (especially) out of Berlin pretty inconvenient, particularly internationally where you need to do a short hop to an actual  European international hub airport to even get a direct flight to most places (only direct long haul flight I ever got out of Tegel was to Abu Dhabi - to US, Latin America, etc, all needed connections first).<p>To be fair Berlin has a unique culture as a capital and it&#x27;s not your typical &#x27;capital city&#x27; experience, but this is just basic infrastructure and really, really should be there. You pay a lot of tax, after all.