With the name branding, Lufthansa had to adopt a 'softly softly' diplomatic approach. Looking back, it's surprising how politically sensitive it still was, to allow LH back into Berlin, in any shape or form. Even as I arrived in TXL that night, there was considerable doubt as to whether the allied powers would permit operations to start the next morning. Everyone knew it was Lufthansa, in all but name, though.
The flight bookings were totally within the LH reservations system. This meant that, for example, if you booked JNB - FRA - TXL on LH, on check-in at JNB, you also got your boarding pass for the EE flight, with seat allocated. At FRA, you proceeded to gate A25, our usual (non-remote) stand, right next to the terminal building, walked down the tunnel, and boarded another aircraft with a Lufthansa interior. That's the (then) new Lufthansa interior, the Euroberlin 737s were the first to get them. A seamless product!
Who would have predicted that one year after Euroberlin started, we would see the fall of the Berlin Wall? The tiny little red 'France' disappeared from the sides of the aircraft within weeks, and it led to EE's eventual demise. It took longer than LH might have liked, though. The late A J Snudden - the man that Dan-Air's Fred Newman let go to Monarch - had stitched up a proper watertight contract!
