Changing airports is almost never something you planned. Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Munich Airport is 581 km and about 5h 35, and a car covers it in one leg with no change and no ticket barrier between you and your suitcase.
The pickup is driven by your inbound flight number: the driver watches the actual landing time and waits 60 minutes free after touchdown, which is what a diverted or delayed arrival needs. At the far end the drop-off is at the correct terminal for your departure — Munich Airport has 2 and the wrong one costs a shuttle ride you do not have time for. Tell us the departing flight at booking and the schedule is worked backwards from its check-in deadline rather than forwards from a convenient departure. We run the same journey to Cologne Bonn Airport, priced the same way.
Luggage stays in the car for the whole 5h 35, which is the single biggest practical difference from any rail route: nothing is lifted onto a train at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, off it again at the interchange, or onto a second one for the run into Munich Airport. If the airline has rebooked you and is reimbursing ground transport, the invoice shows the route, the date and the fare in a form an airline will accept.
Booking this for somebody else
A large share of these journeys are arranged by someone who is not travelling: a colleague at a desk in another timezone, a family member watching a flight tracker, or airline ground staff working through a queue of rebooked passengers. The booking is built for that. What it needs is the passenger's name, the two flight numbers, and one mobile that will actually be answered — which is usually the booker's, not the passenger's, since the passenger is in the air for most of the window that matters. Confirmation goes to both addresses, and the invoice goes to whoever is paying, which is frequently a third party again.
Checked bags are the whole argument
With cabin baggage only, the rail route between two airports is an inconvenience. With checked bags it is a different journey altogether: every interchange means lifting cases onto a train, off it, up a staircase when the lift is out, and along a platform to the right carriage. A car takes the bags once at Berlin Brandenburg Airport and gives them back at Munich Airport. A saloon holds three large cases, a van takes seven passengers with luggage to match, and if you are travelling with sports equipment or instruments — the things that make a rail change genuinely hard — say so at booking and the right vehicle is sent.