To confirm what Grant said, East Berlin had service to most, if not all, Warsaw Pact countries plus many intercontinental destinations in Africa and Asia. Among the airlines flying there were Interflug, Aeroflot, Malev, Tarom, just to name a few. David R home.attbi.com/~damiross/airlines.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant McKenzie" <grantmckenzie@optushome.com.au> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Speaking of Montreal... > >Berlin is also poorly served as a national capital. Until recently, I > >believe the only national capital you could fly to from Berlin was Ulan > >Bator, Mongolia. > > > Are you sure about this? In the Cold War days, I think East Berlin was > served from Moscow at least if not some other Warsaw Pact countries. I also > think that the West Berlin sectors were served from London and Paris if not > others. Not entirely certain of this, however so I could be wrong. > > Grant > SYD > QF