Tempelhof Central Airport (TOF) is one of the worlds famous airfields with a lot of history to tell about.
I´m living a bit north of centerline 09 of that airfield.
The political argument (or better: legal argument) for closing the field is, that the new airport "BBI" (under construction, now operating as SXF, the former East German airport southeast of Berlin) will be legally endangered by continuing Tempelhof (TOF) and Tegel (TXL).
There are a lot of people, who are interested in continuing TOF as airfield (mainly for business and smaller prop aircraft).
There is no actual planning for the use of that big area and the big building (which was never really completed, I took part at a sightseeing tour in the building, including the former american facilities . . . very interesting) after closing as airfield. Nothing.
And . . . the mayor of Berlin (Wowereit his name) told the people before, that he will close the field as planned, whatever the people today will decide on the election.
Interesting development, we will see. . .
Last edited by railwaysengineer; 27th Apr 2008 at 07:53.