Kinda Funny

 The Defense Committee....associated with the Bundestag (in Berlin) decided o hold a special meeting in Celle (Lower Saxony).

On a map?  Leaving Berlin....Celle is about 2.5 hours driving....westward.  By train?  Roughly the same amount of time.  

The Committee decided that it'd make more sense to fly over.....the Celle location was an actual military runway area...you could make the trip in 40 minutes.  They had a A400-M all scheduled up for the 'hop'.  

The issue, as you might sense....it's a in-country flight, and the environmental folks are all hyped-up.....you just shouldn't travel by air....in such a fashion.

What the environmental folks wanted...was the Bundestag political folks to just do the right thing....either drive in a bus (figure five hours with traffic...one way), or in a car (figure four hours driving at a higher rate of speed), or perhaps using a train....where there is no direct path, and you'd have to switch....doing the waiting game, an assume that Bahn issues don't occur.  My best guess on the train?  Six to eight hours. 

What the meeting was all about?  If you peel back the chatter....it was more of a meet-and-greet situation where Army troops would explain their equipment, and politicians would get 'smart' over military landscape.  

This flight from Berlin?  It's slipped up to page two news and triggering people to ask just how far you can go....in using a helicopter or a plane....to get from location X in Germany....location Y in Germany.

If you asked me....by 2030....will some federal law exist that forbids in-country flights in Germany?  I'd say it's a 90-percent chance that it'll happen, and you will find forty-odd flights that exist out of Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin.....where the plane departs and lands in a neighbor-country....allows for passenger entry/exit, and then re-enters German airspace to land at German airport.  

People being peppy or positive about being forced to ride the rail system?  Look, it's four hours on a good day by train from Berlin to Munich, or 6.5 hours from Munich to Hamburg.  Add in normal delays with the train, or potential AC failure in the summer months....I would suggest that more than 80-percent of the public would not be thrilled over a railway ride.  

Then you go and suggest riding a car from Munich to Berlin....with it taking seven hours on a high density traffic day?  

There's no doubt where things are going and this 'push' toward zero in-country flights.