Just after the wall came down I had the pleasure of operating one of the first scheduled services into the 'free Berlin', landing in this extraordinary airfield.
Parking under the roof and looking at the surroundings burned impressions in my mind I will never forget.
My (digital) logbook tells me about 48 incident free landings and take-offs at THF, certainly all of them some kind of a special event for me.
Well, politicians with no vision rule everywhere these days, THF would have deserved better.
It is not the first airfield which will be closed forever; but it is certainly one with a great history. There are for sure still a lot of 'Airbridge' pilots around who helped Berlin surviving with their impressive go-arounds after dropping the big parcels....on an airfield they never landed on.
Very sad to say Aufwiedersehen, it will be by car however.