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Schoenefeld airport was located in the GDR, just south of West Berlin, not in East Berlin.

[edit] Schoenefeld is in East Berlin

South-East, if you must. Check the Atlas.

[edit] Efficiency of the airline

There are no references or numbers provided in the article with regard to efficiency of soviet planes vs. comparable western planes, or of the operation as a whole. Depending on fuel prices, the airline may have been very profitable, as was the case with Aeroflot, even though the latter was very inefficient as it did not fulfill the market demand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.164.150.2 (talk) 01:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I added this part originally. Can't quote directly the exact page number but I remember from reading Alan Watson's The German Question (written in 1994) and David Marsh's works that Interflug before German reunification had long been a thorn on the GDR's finance even before the Soviet Union's glasnost cut off most financial subsidies to East Germany. It is not real original news to anyone who lived through German reunification. Even the author of ddr-interflug.de site hints that the purchase of A310 was because the efficiencies of Il-62 were not enough to sustain the airline. If you like you can search New York Times or Air Transport World archived news on Interflug from 1990 and 1991 - they had plenty of periodical news coverages about Interflug's financial plights. The best of all, they are available now to anyone on the net, often free of charge. --JNZ (talk) 02:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Schoenefeld is in East Berlin

[edit] Efficiency of the airline

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