[_petronius]

I really don't get the BER hate. It's not only a huge improvement over SXF and TXL (minus T1 at TXL, RIP turning up 10 minutes before boarding), but it's a perfectly good airport in its own right.

The building of it and the budget overrun was a disaster, and demonstrated the worst of infrastructure building in this country, but will happily die on the hill that the result is good, actually. (If we want to get into contenders for "worst in the world", my opening bid is ATL.)

[camillomiller]

Fair, not the worst in the world, that was hyperbole. Yet, it’s absolutely not an airport that’s fit for the capital of one of the most powerful countries in the world. It’s still too small and can’t handle capacity properly, meaning that a lot of routes that existed before have never been reinstated. A lot has to do with Lufthansa refusing to invest in any direct route from there, which is clearly some political issue, not a design issue but still. Take this little detail: it’s the only major EU capital airport where no lounge has any deal whatsoever with Priority Pass. Sounds like a first world problem, I know, but it clearly indicates how they can’t manage even the most basic deals with aviation partners, more than two year after opening…

[Symbiote]

Brussels has no priority pass lounge, nor one of the large Heathrow terminals.

[verall]

American airports are in their own class. I think ORD is the worst but ATL isn't good.

[mhh__]

Terrible or not in the past it's absolutely fine now IMO. Certainly for short hops.