Lufthansa is reflected on the side of Ryanair
A more influential supporter could wish for the airport Berlin-Tegel. Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr is against a closure.
Carsten Spohr has so far had a clear opinion: The airport Berlin-Tegel will be closed when the new Airport BER is ready to start. In the autumn of 2017, the Lufthansa-Chef on legal risks for the new airport Berlin-Brandenburg referred to the, if you keep at Tegel. "Then you have at some point in a BER, the later opens and still have no Tegel to deliver what would have to pay in Tegel, actually," quoted him as saying at the time, the Berliner Morgenpost.
Now, Spohr has changed its course: The own customers and many of the citizens expected by now "to the right of all the parties Involved, that we assess the question of the preservation of Tegel, with a view on the current development of air transport," said the Lufthansa Chairman and CEO, according to the newspaper Bild on Tuesday (15. January) in Berlin. One should therefore reconsider the decision again. However there is a Problem: The current flight procedures for Tegel are not compatible with the flight routes of the future BER.
Spohr: Tegel needs to be better
Spohr called for improvements in Tegel, where "even without the strike is already unacceptable conditions" would reign. He criticized the outdated technology, and queues of up to 100 meters. "We will continue to not rest until this Situation is improved," said Spohr. "Especially since the growth in air traffic and we are unable to assess whether and how the new BER and the surrounding infrastructure, this growth at all."
With its swivel Lufthansa is now on the page of Ryanair. Also, the cheap airline demanded repeatedly that they should receive Tegel in addition to the BER. "We support the idea that Berlin, like London and Paris, has several functioning Airports," said Ryanair chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs. The Irish, therefore, support the citizens ' initiative "Berlin Tegel".