SCHONEFELD, Germany – Benny waddles up to eight-year-old Maya, performs a cheerful pirouette on his short hind legs and then nuzzles in for a cuddle. Already a little cranky from the long wait for her flight to Turkey with her family, Maya is instantly besotted with the four-year-old dachshund, and her father Michael Uth a bit less harried. Berlin’s massively delayed, absurdly over-budget, far-too-small international airport BER, which opened in 2020 to heaps of scorn, has had to get creative to try to win over weary passengers. A pilot programme is dispatching three particularly good-natured pooches, along with two human trainers, as on-the-ground stress relief ambassadors. At the start of the autumn school holiday rush, Benny, black Labrador Emi and…
