>Agreed. One minor downside was needing an additional flight. It seems AB who >handles about a third of the traffic rather than Lufthansa that handles about one >fifth, was not the best choice where a 6 hour layover extended an hour on the tarmac >in a hot plane. With any luck, the next time we meet in Germany, they'll have opened the new and much larger Berlin Brandenburg airport which will enable far more direct intercontinental flights.