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	Tempelhof - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		As Tempelhof Field, the airport was the main terminal of the Berlin airlift during the Soviet blockade (June, 1948-May, 1949) of West Berlin, and was considerably enlarged.
		Tempelhof Airport decommissioning causes problems for German government.
		The Tempelhof in Berlin is one of the world's great historic airports, but for anyone who hasn't seen it, time is running out.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tempelho.html (482 words)

	SchÃ¶nefeld International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is further from the city than the other two Berlin airports, Tegel International Airport and Tempelhof International Airport, and therefore is not as much a source of noise pollution.
		Six months after the airport is renamed and the new section opened, Tegel airport is to close (effectively sometime in 2007).
		Berlin-Schoenefeld airport was founded on 15 October 1934, with the construction of the Henschel aircraft plant (MLG) in Schoenefeld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schönefeld_International_Airport (400 words)

	Berlin Brandenburg International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		BBI will bundle together the three current airports of Berlin, as SchÃ¶nefeld will be much larger than it is in its current state, while the other two airports, Tempelhof International Airport and Tegel International Airport.
		Tempelhof was scheduled to be closed in 2004, but after protest, the decision to close Tempelhof has been postponed until a later date, probably after 2010.
		Following German reunification in the 1990s, a single airport would be more effective and would reduce noise from the two innercity airports.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_International_Airport (344 words)

	tempelhof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tempelhof International Airport Tempelhof International Airport (Flughafen Tempelhof) is an airport in Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-of-downtown borough of Tempelhof -Schöneberg.
		Tempelhof Tempelhof is a borough of the city of Berlin that was united with Sch Tempelhof -Schöneberg.
		Tempelhof -Schöneberg Tempelhof -Schöneberg is a borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Tempelhof and Schöneberg.
	www.wikisearch.net /tempelhof (259 words)

	Airport Technology - Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, Schoenefeld, Germany
		Tegel and Tempelhof cannot be expanded as they are surrounded by urban areas and the only real option for expansion of airport facilities is Schönefeld airport in the southeast of Berlin.
		Tempelhof Airport will now be closed in 2007 (a year later than previously agreed) and Tegel Airport in 2011.
		The airport will also be integrated into a new road and rail infrastructure to allow good communication and short travelling distance to the centre of Berlin and the rest of Germany.
	www.airport-technology.com /projects/berlin (1227 words)

	Grand Nazi Airport That Saved Berlin From Starvation
		Tempelhof, which has a modest capacity of 1.5 million passengers annually, is used mainly by business passengers and served by small turbo-prop and jet planes for flights to other European cities.
		It was during the Berlin Airlift from June 1948 to September 1949 that Tempelhof came into its own, saving a besieged people from either starving or freezing to death and serving notice to the Soviet Union that Stalin's ambitions ended at the city's borders.
		It is for the airlift alone that most Berliners remember the airport with nostalgia, but it served the city well long after the food and fuel drops stopped.
	www.rense.com /general53/satrv.htm (541 words)

	Passenger Opinions about Berlin Tempelhof Airport
		The mother of all airports has an impressive architecture, huge size and is very close to the city.
		Tempelhof is Berlin's pre WWII airport and is one of the older operational airports in Europe, It's an arrchitectural treasure.
		Unfortunately they are going to shut it down in the next few years because of lack of travel demand and because it is in the located in the middle of a densely populated residential area.
	www.airlinequality.com /Airports/Airport_forum/thf.htm (487 words)

	Bid to prevent airport closure dismissed - Boston.com
		Thirteen companies that use the inner-city airport have sought to block its closure as part of plans to build a new hub on the edge of the capital.
		Tempelhof opened in 1923 and was expanded under the Nazis into a huge horseshoe-shaped complex.
		Tempelhof -- the closest of the city's three international airports to downtown Berlin -- is now used only for short-hop flights with small aircraft.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/02/12/bid_to_prevent_airport_closure_dismissed?mode=PF (444 words)

	CNN.com - Defiance over Berlin airport closure - Jun 14, 2004
		Tempelhof airport was made world-famous by the Berlin airlift of 1948.
		The airport is the closest of the city's three international airports to central Berlin and is now used mainly by smaller airlines for short-haul commuter flights.
		Tempelhof was made world-famous by the Berlin airlift of 1948 when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TRAVEL/06/14/bt.tempelhof.closure/index.html (474 words)

	AardvarkArticles.net
		Berlin Tempelhof (German: Flughafen Tempelhof) is an airport in Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-of-downtown borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
		It is the largest airport in Germany and the second or third-largest in Europe (depending which data are used), serving as an important hub for international flights from around the world.
		Munich International Airport, named Franz Josef Strauß International Airport (Strauß is often spelled Strauss in English) (German Franz-Josef-Strauß-Flughafen) is the airport located 28 km northeast of Munich, Germany, and is a hub for Lufthansa and Star Alliance partner airlines.
	www.aardvarkarticles.net /authorarticles.php?id=25&p=29 (600 words)

	Germany Info: Information Services: Publications: The Week in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tempelhof: "The mother of all airports" is due to close.
		Tempelhof, a regional airport that was the lifeline to West Berlin during the airlift of 1948-49, is scheduled to be closed this October under Mayor Klaus Wowereit's master plan to consolidate air traffic at East Berlin's Schoenefeld airport.
		They argue that the airport is simply badly managed by city authorities who have been trying to shut it down it for over a decade — and that it can thrive once its future is no longer in doubt.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/week/2004/040820/economy1.html (518 words)

	FLUG REVUE June 1999: Berlin airport plans
		In this case the sacrifices are Tegel and Tempelhof, Berlin's urban airport.
		At the beginning this April the tender from the Hochtief Consortium was accepted at DM 635 million, although not adhering to technical standards was given as a definite reason for disqualification in the conditions of the tender document.
		Together with the other Tempelhof airlines he is even of the opinion that "their" airport should be maintained to give Berlin a competitive edge.
	www.flug-revue.rotor.com /frheft/FRH9906/FR9906b.htm (1845 words)

	Planned Tempelhof Airport Closure Still Controversial - World News - Playfuls.com - Business & World
		At present it seems unlikely the Tempelhof air companies involved will accept the ruling, which means the court may have to reconvene five days later to deliver a "final" verdict in the case.
		Flying in to the airport has always been a test of a pilots' skill and concentration, with its central location forcing pilots to make sharp descents over dense city housing before plonking their planes down in a narrow opening.
		"Tempelhof means a lot to the west Berliners," says Anne Robertson, 54, whose New Zealand-born father was killed when his plane crashed during the height of the airlift operation, and who now lives with her family in Berlin.
	www.playfuls.com /news_10_6055-Planned-Tempelhof-Airport-Closure-Still-Controversial.html (877 words)

	Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Berlin's famous Tempelhof Airport, which played a critical role in the 1948 Berlin Airlift, is slated to close in October.
		The airport has lost money and passengers to the city's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports in recent years, and plans to expand Schoenefeld into an international hub by 2010 (to be renamed the Berlin-Brandenberg International Airport) have sped the decline at Tempelhof.
		Lufthansa abandoned Tempelhof for Tegel in the mid-1990s, and the airport is now used mostly for regional and local airlines.
	www.businesstravelerusa.com /articles.php?articleID=654 (143 words)

	Future of Historic Airport Has Berlin Divided Again - washingtonpost.com
		Berlin's Tempelhof airport was jammed with private planes for July's World Cup final but is scheduled to close in 2008.
		Tempelhof airport, designed for Adolf Hitler as the largest building in Europe and later converted by the Americans and British into the nerve center of the Airlift, has been sentenced to close after more than 70 years in operation.
		She described the airport as one of the few Nazi-era architectural landmarks that had survived the war and was then embraced by many Germans, thanks to its role in the Airlift.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100940.html (1451 words)

	ICAT City-Airport Tempelhof Home
		ICAT, which stands for "Interessengemeinschaft City-Airport Tempelhof", is a big and steadily growing group of people with all the same goal, to protect the airport with all its facilities.
		ICAT has already developed a lot of concepts and propositions to run that airport in a proper and economic way in the next future.
		City-Airport Tempelhof has a lot of potentials to offer, there is lot of unused space in the buildings and the field with a very high infrastructional potential.
	www.flughafen-berlin-tempelhof.de /home-engl.html (169 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Berlin icon Tempelhof to close
		Tempelhof airport, Berlin, described both as a totalitarian monstrosity and the most romantic of the city's icons, is to close in the autumn because it is no longer viable.
		He is one of many Berliners lobbying to save the airport, which is the largest building in Europe and the third largest in the world.
		Tempelhof was built in the 1920s and greatly expanded by the Nazis under Hermann Goering, forming an integral part of Albert Speer's master plan for Berlin.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/26/wtemp26.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/07/26/ixworld.html (512 words)

	Merkel joins battle over Tempelhof airport \| \| Guardian Unlimited Business
		With construction under way on a new €2bn (£1.35bn) Berlin airport, capable of handling up to 25 million passengers a year, the future of the historic Tempelhof site is at the centre of a fierce new debate.
		This giant airport is just 10 minutes by train from the city centre but handles only half a million passengers a year - on little more than 40 flights a day - compared with the six million people passing through it in the 1970s.
		Tempelhof, the world's first commercial airport, was built in 1923 and extended by the Nazis to become the world's biggest building with a terminal more than 1,000 metres long.
	business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,,1869312,00.html (420 words)

	Tempelhof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tempelhof Central Airport was Berlin's principal airport from 1923 to 1974 and is intimately entwined with the U.S. Air Force Airlift into West Berlin.
		As one remembers the history of West Berlin, you can't help but think of the airlift that was staged from Tempelhof Central Airport and some of the many C-47 aircraft the flew in and out of West Berlin to keep these 2.5 million people fed and free.
		These shots are an aerial view, and a ground level shot of the busy ramp, at Tempelhof Central Airport during the airlift.
	home.earthlink.net /~rcbarbas/id4.html (478 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Berlin's forgotten airport nears last flight
		Around 20 airlines and businesses which use the airport are taking legal action to try to stop the closure.
		The airport authorities insist Tempelhof has to be closed by the end of October.
		But local residents and politicians who want to keep the airport open are adamant that they will keep on fighting until the last moment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3875545.stm (630 words)

	Planned Tempelhof airport closure still controversial, News, Germany, Expatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At present it seems unlikely the Tempelhof air companies involved will accept the ruling, which means the court may have to reconvene later in the month to deliver a 'final' verdict in the case.
		Tempelhof is a powerful symbol of the relations between Germany and America.
		Ultimately, Berlin's second largest airport, Tegel, to the north-west of the city, will also be shut down, but years later than Tempelhof and not until six months after the work of expanding Schoenefeld has been completed.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=35520&RSS (916 words)

	Berliner Unterwelten e.V. – Tempelhof airport
		The Tempelhof airport was planned by the architect Ernst Sagebiel and built from 1937 until 1941.
		The airport was part of Albert Speer's (Hitler's main architect) plans for the German capital.
		According to Hitler's ideas, Berlin was to become the capital of Europe and be renamed “Germania” by 1950, with Tempelhof being the continent's main airport.
	www.berliner-unterwelten.de /en/002/b/dat_fh-tempelhof/content.htm (383 words)

	Locations - VLDB 2003
		Tegel airport (major) is located in the Northwest within the city area.
		Tempelhof airport located within the residential areas in the South is Berlin's oldest airport.
		Schönefeld Airport, located in the southeast, outside the city area is Berlin's largest commercial airport.
	www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de /locev_Locations.html (234 words)

	Facility Management Flooring Solutions
		This company has been responsible for cleaning Tempelhof airport in Berlin since 1925, and they also clean Tegel airport and other large properties in Berlin and Brandenburg.
		A conventional hard metallic coating was used in the entrance hall at Tempelhof airport at the beginning.
		The three layers that were applied in the airport hall are cleaned during daily, or rather nightly, maintenance cleaning.
	www.3m.com /intl/DE/english/market/commercialcare/6_4_1.html (654 words)

	Nazi-Era Airport Will Close a Year Later Than Planned \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 21.12.2006
		A German court has said Berlin's Nazi-era airport, Tempelhof, which was supposed to close on Oct 31, 2007, could stay open for another year in a compromise deal.
		Berlin's third airport of Tegel, in the city's north, is due to shut as soon as BBI is open for business.
		Despite vehement protests and an ongoing court case, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit insisted in his government policy statement that Tempelhof Airport will indeed be closed to air traffic next year.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,2287440,00.html (525 words)

	Tempelhof International Airport (THF) - Airports Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Berlin Tempelhof (German: Flughafen Tempelhof) is an airport in Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-central borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
		Tempelhof mostly has commuter flights to other parts of Germany and neighboring countries, since its runway is...
		The airport is scheduled for closure in October 2008, and possible other uses for it are being discussed.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /airports/tempelhof-international-airport-thf (248 words)

	Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) Information: Airport in Berlin Area, Germany
		This important Germany airport is Berlin's smallest airport, offering efficient service, and Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) contains all the facilities that are expected at modern airports in Germany by today's traveller.
		Amongst the numerous airport amenities that Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) provides are cafés, airport duty-free shops, business meeting rooms, parking facilities and also at Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) there is a choice of car rental companies.
		Ground transportation options available at Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) include airport buses, car rental, limousines, U-Bahn trains and airport taxi cabs, travelling between Tempelhof THF Airport and Berlin city centre, as well as other suburban areas of Germany.
	www.berlin-thf.airports-guides.com (424 words)

	ScienceDaily: Tempelhof airport in Berlin closing
		Historic Berlin airport to close (February 14, 2007) -- Germany's historic Tempelhof airport will close in 2008 after a failed court battle that would have kept it open for five more years.
		Mortar attack on Somalia airport kills two (January 25, 2007) -- A mortar attack on an airport in the Somali capital of Mogadishu left at least two people dead and four civilians injured.
		Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being Of Children (March 6, 1998) -- The constant roar from jet aircraft can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, according to a new Cornell University study.
	www.sciencedaily.com /upi/index.php?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20061227-18022900-bc-germany-tempelhof.xml (1702 words)

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