cloudtravelWanderlust and heavenly advice for travelers.Tempelhof Airport in Central Berlin to Close- January 2, 2008 With Brandenburg International Airport scheduled to open in 2011 at the site of Schonefeld military airbase to the southeast of Berlin, both Tegel and Tempelhof airports will be closed. Tempelhof in central Berlin was the first metropolitan airport to be serviced by a subway station when it opened in 1927. It is three years short of being the oldest operating major airport (Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney is the oldest). Protests and a lawsuit have failed to change the plan to...http://cloudtravel.typepad.com/cloudtravel/2008/01/tempelhof-airpo.html |