I fly there regularly. (Well, sort-of-regularly.)
There's a very nice flying school there, where I can rent two very nice PA18s. (They also offer a DA 40 TDI, a DA 42, a C150 (built in 1962), an Ercoupe, an AC112, an Aurora, a Bücker Jungmann, a Chippi and Stearman).
And many Berliners are truly fighting to keep this airport open! Currently they are collecting signatures for the referendum. 170.000 signatures are needed by Feb 14th, 2008. The current count is at ca. 160.000, so it looks quite good.
And the mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit has already stated that he intends to ignore this.
Isn't it great when a politician clearly states that he doesn't give a s**t about what the citizens want?!
