When the switch of leadership facilities occurred in the late 1990s....from Bonn to Berlin, there was a couple of things that simply didn't move to Berlin. Varying reasons were given at the time, and no one said much.
This past week, the Green Party stood up in the Bundestag and asked a question. The question was....the VIP aircraft fleet which is available for the Chancellor and Ministers....how many times a year do they fly from Koln (their military base of assignment) to Berlin, to pick up 'passengers' and transport them.
The answer? RBB (Berlin public TV) reports the answer: 800 times a year.
Yep...empty plane assigned to fly out of Koln to Berlin, and then pick up their passengers. And later, it'll fly the passengers back to Berlin, and to return to Koln.
What prevents the permanent movement of the military aircraft unit to Berlin? Well....BER....the new airport going up and which was supposed to have been done around 2011 (still behind schedule), still can't handle flight activity.
The number of times that the Koln team were scheduled to transport a VIP passenger group, and upon arrival at Berlin.....the flight was cancelled? Well...in 2018, there were ten of these cancelled flights.
Will this hype change anything? Personally, I have my doubts.
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