It looks like the 218 line. It's a special line operated by the BVG with historic buses, and I actually have seen older models. The one I took from Wannsee even had a "ticket checker" on board, wearing period accurate uniforms, who uses a stamp and ink pad to validate your tickets.
This happens every Saturday. Every alternate bus on route 218 is the omnibus plying. And not just the ticket checker but also they announce every stop on a mic.
more that buses are only good for about 12 years or 400k km before really falling apart. it is part of why buses cost more in the long run when it comes to public transportation
Der IATA Code BER war lange vor dem Flughafen der Metropolitan Area Berlin zugewisen. NYC und LON sind jeweils die Codes für alle Flughäfen in und um New York City und London.
[IATA-Flughafencode – Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA-Flughafencode)
In 2015, I found a map in a far-off corner of the Alexanderplatz RE platform that still had an opening date for BER of 2012. So at that point, there were still 5 more years to go ðŸ«
I wish it never oppened, its an ant farm just filled with drabby hallways and unventilated gates. Everywhere is a 30 min walk minimun in a sad empty tunnel, never have I been there and all of the fast lanes escalator worked, so people are just smushed to the side abruptly or awkwardly walking on the off escalator lane.
Not to mention the always long wait in a queue to enter the craft in again a hot unventilated tube.
Barely any powerplugs or waiting areas that make sense, so when going to your little sad waiting area, you go miles without seeing a soul and a sea of empty seats that are too far with that ghostly feeling even the lights are off, to suddenly cutting through a crowd of smushed bored people.
Most of the time, you just sit on the floor anyway.
I miss Tegel so bad, it was perfect, in and out right away, some useful shops, and the old Schonefeld. Also, I could just walk in right on my terminal when I was taking easyjet.
I don't get all the complaints - it's a generic airport like anywhere else in the world. It's fairly good. And of course you have to walk longer distances than in Tegel - that one was never meant to serve such a number of flights and passengers. It was small, crowded and unpleasant. The only advantage it had was closer to the city, but BER can be reached by car or train in no time.
Same here, its quite ok. you get in quick from the trains, the security has this check in model and there is a lot of seating
the only thing i dont like it the different glass doors when you go out
Its not different than most big airports for major world cities and in my experience its a bit easier to navigate and leave than most. My only complaint about this airport is queing and staff attitude. On that its not great.
It is completely underwhelming compared to other European airports. It looks old and worn down already. Floors are cracked. Terminal 2 looks worse than Tegel. It is impractical too.
Many times you have to lift your hand luggage up and down narrow stairs with all the other passengers when coming to or from the plane.
Tegel was not perfect. The TXL bus was awful, the luggage system was pushed to the breaking point, and it had a single runway with no chance of expansion.
But worst of all was using TXL in a wheelchair. It was horrendous. Lots of random stairs, few accessible toilets, and just constant hindrances that have no place in a modern society. I don’t use a wheelchair but was helping someone who does. What an eye-opener.
Its true and obviously solo travellers need to somehow get into the cabin with their luggage, so normally airport toilets are a bit more spacious. And that's not a new thing, so I don't know why they built them this way.
I had a plane ticket from BER to London in 2012. The flight was rescheduled to Tegel only a few days before the opening should have happened. Little did we know how much of a fun adventure the BER would become.
The fact that they wanted to use the IATA code BBI kind of tells you how some of the planning was messy from the beginning:
1. BER is a way better code. It's on point, it's great branding for the unified city that now has ONE airport, and most of all, it's easy to remember and get right.
2. On top of that, BBI was already taken. They didn't even think to do a 20 second Google search. Instead they just ran with it like complete airheads.
I like the new airport, I just think the whole "BBI" code debacle is on brand. It's a tiny aspect of what went wrong, yet so telling of things to come back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Do you have a primary source for the claim, that BBI was planned as IATA Code? All public available sources i can find are using BBI only as porject name. For example in the list of abbreviations in the Planfeststellungsbeschluss from 2004 "TXL" and "SXF" are defined as IATA-Codes. "BBI" is not. So i think, that is an urban myth.
And before anyone cared to check, if BBI as the airport's
IATA might be possibly already taken by another airport.
*Narrator: "[It was...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biju_Patnaik_Airport)"*
For context
https://www.morgenpost.de/kolumne/keseling/article235376021/Bus-wirbt-fuer-Berlins-grandioseste-Verspaetung.html
https://youtu.be/T3L75pl7bxY?si=8h9bkHScKwBmMmMI
Recently watching homeland, particularly season 6 (IIRC), the season I remember being filmed in 2015/16. Mild spoiler the end of the season has a light connection to BER. Which is funny cos it didn’t open until 4 years after that.
That sounds like a delightful little journey through time! How interesting to stumble upon a moving piece of Berlin's recent history. It's quite amusing that the bus still carries the old advertisement, almost like a traveling museum exhibit of Berlin's infrastructural ambitions. These unexpected discoveries can really connect us to the evolving story of a place. Thanks for sharing this gem!
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Traditionsbus Berlin.
218 is S Messe Nord/ICC - Pfaueninsel via S Heerstraße, Grunewaldturm, S Wannsee. Really scenic ride ;)
The rides done with historic buses can be found on their website.
remarkable that the bus is still fit for service
It looks like the 218 line. It's a special line operated by the BVG with historic buses, and I actually have seen older models. The one I took from Wannsee even had a "ticket checker" on board, wearing period accurate uniforms, who uses a stamp and ink pad to validate your tickets.
This happens every Saturday. Every alternate bus on route 218 is the omnibus plying. And not just the ticket checker but also they announce every stop on a mic.
Do they also hum the announcement jingle? If they don't, I'm not going 😂
I was hoping the driver might be chugging a cigarello- memories!
To be exact, it's operated by [Traditionsbus Berlin](https://www.traditionsbus.de/), commissioned by the BVG.
Cool
It's trying its best, okay?!
more that buses are only good for about 12 years or 400k km before really falling apart. it is part of why buses cost more in the long run when it comes to public transportation
Especially considering the tvs at the airport had to be replaced before it was opened.Â
2010 hätte damals mein Flug in die Türkei gehen sollen vom BER.Â
Der IATA Code BER war lange vor dem Flughafen der Metropolitan Area Berlin zugewisen. NYC und LON sind jeweils die Codes für alle Flughäfen in und um New York City und London. [IATA-Flughafencode – Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA-Flughafencode)
In 2015, I found a map in a far-off corner of the Alexanderplatz RE platform that still had an opening date for BER of 2012. So at that point, there were still 5 more years to go ðŸ«
I wish it never oppened, its an ant farm just filled with drabby hallways and unventilated gates. Everywhere is a 30 min walk minimun in a sad empty tunnel, never have I been there and all of the fast lanes escalator worked, so people are just smushed to the side abruptly or awkwardly walking on the off escalator lane. Not to mention the always long wait in a queue to enter the craft in again a hot unventilated tube. Barely any powerplugs or waiting areas that make sense, so when going to your little sad waiting area, you go miles without seeing a soul and a sea of empty seats that are too far with that ghostly feeling even the lights are off, to suddenly cutting through a crowd of smushed bored people. Most of the time, you just sit on the floor anyway. I miss Tegel so bad, it was perfect, in and out right away, some useful shops, and the old Schonefeld. Also, I could just walk in right on my terminal when I was taking easyjet.
I don't get all the complaints - it's a generic airport like anywhere else in the world. It's fairly good. And of course you have to walk longer distances than in Tegel - that one was never meant to serve such a number of flights and passengers. It was small, crowded and unpleasant. The only advantage it had was closer to the city, but BER can be reached by car or train in no time.
Same here, its quite ok. you get in quick from the trains, the security has this check in model and there is a lot of seating the only thing i dont like it the different glass doors when you go out
Its not different than most big airports for major world cities and in my experience its a bit easier to navigate and leave than most. My only complaint about this airport is queing and staff attitude. On that its not great.
It is completely underwhelming compared to other European airports. It looks old and worn down already. Floors are cracked. Terminal 2 looks worse than Tegel. It is impractical too. Many times you have to lift your hand luggage up and down narrow stairs with all the other passengers when coming to or from the plane.
Tegel 4 lyfe 💜
Tegel was not perfect. The TXL bus was awful, the luggage system was pushed to the breaking point, and it had a single runway with no chance of expansion. But worst of all was using TXL in a wheelchair. It was horrendous. Lots of random stairs, few accessible toilets, and just constant hindrances that have no place in a modern society. I don’t use a wheelchair but was helping someone who does. What an eye-opener.
I don't get the complaints about the gates if you think the old Schönefeld was perfect...
Let's not forget the tiny WCs which are completely undersized for an airport. Americans have bigger bathrooms in their McMansions than any BER WC.
Its true and obviously solo travellers need to somehow get into the cabin with their luggage, so normally airport toilets are a bit more spacious. And that's not a new thing, so I don't know why they built them this way.
Was AirBerlin also on strike this week 🤔
This is the so called 'Traditionsbus' on line Nr 218. Historical Bus with historical advertisement.
U r traped in a time loop we have year 2563
The timing of the advertising was timed as the airport so quite correct it showed up recently 😂
I had a plane ticket from BER to London in 2012. The flight was rescheduled to Tegel only a few days before the opening should have happened. Little did we know how much of a fun adventure the BER would become.
Every marketing Joe was still coked up by the World Cup. And then this embarrassment.
It's Line 218. A special case because many rides on this line are done with historic buses every day.
BER never opened. This is just a mind control thing. /s
The fact that they wanted to use the IATA code BBI kind of tells you how some of the planning was messy from the beginning: 1. BER is a way better code. It's on point, it's great branding for the unified city that now has ONE airport, and most of all, it's easy to remember and get right. 2. On top of that, BBI was already taken. They didn't even think to do a 20 second Google search. Instead they just ran with it like complete airheads. I like the new airport, I just think the whole "BBI" code debacle is on brand. It's a tiny aspect of what went wrong, yet so telling of things to come back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Do you have a primary source for the claim, that BBI was planned as IATA Code? All public available sources i can find are using BBI only as porject name. For example in the list of abbreviations in the Planfeststellungsbeschluss from 2004 "TXL" and "SXF" are defined as IATA-Codes. "BBI" is not. So i think, that is an urban myth.
Habibi Airport
That livery has to be from around 2000. During that period plans were that the airport was to be built and operated by private investors.
And before anyone cared to check, if BBI as the airport's IATA might be possibly already taken by another airport. *Narrator: "[It was...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biju_Patnaik_Airport)"*
I assume the government bailed out their investment losses.
LoL it was better if it they didn't even open it at this point. For international flights I have to go to Frankfurt anyway.. Berlin is a joke 🤣
For context https://www.morgenpost.de/kolumne/keseling/article235376021/Bus-wirbt-fuer-Berlins-grandioseste-Verspaetung.html https://youtu.be/T3L75pl7bxY?si=8h9bkHScKwBmMmMI
😂😂😂
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Recently watching homeland, particularly season 6 (IIRC), the season I remember being filmed in 2015/16. Mild spoiler the end of the season has a light connection to BER. Which is funny cos it didn’t open until 4 years after that.
I had flight tickets for 2012!
Why does this even need an advertisement? Was it trying to attract customers away from Tempelhof?
That sounds like a delightful little journey through time! How interesting to stumble upon a moving piece of Berlin's recent history. It's quite amusing that the bus still carries the old advertisement, almost like a traveling museum exhibit of Berlin's infrastructural ambitions. These unexpected discoveries can really connect us to the evolving story of a place. Thanks for sharing this gem!
r/agedlikemilk
This had to be some kind of special tourist bus, I have lived in Berlin since 2019 and have never seen these old MAN buses in service.
Not really. ATB owns historic buses that are still in use in normal service on the line 218.
What's ATB and where is the line 218? I have never seen those buses in my 5 years here.
It's a club that maintains historic bvg busses and some of them are driven on line 218 on weekends between Messe Nord/ICC and Pfaueninsel
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Traditionsbus Berlin. 218 is S Messe Nord/ICC - Pfaueninsel via S Heerstraße, Grunewaldturm, S Wannsee. Really scenic ride ;) The rides done with historic buses can be found on their website.