The Story Behind Berlin Brandenburg Airport’s 10-Year Delay
- Date: 02-Nov-2020
- Source: Al Bawaba
- Sector:Transport
- Country:Middle East
The Story Behind Berlin Brandenburg Airport’s 10-Year Delay
The Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), which continues its streak of luck by opening in the middle of a pandemic that has caused travel worldwide to plummet, was meant to open its door on Oct. 30, 2011.
But poor planning and construction work has delayed the project multiple times and inflated its cost to the tunes of billions of euros.
Euronews recaps the whole saga.
An idea is born
The idea of a central airport for the German capital emerged after the country's reunification in 1991 and planning began just one year later. The airport was initially to be named "Berlin Brandenburg International".
In 1996, the three shareholders “” Berlin, the state of Brandenburg and the federal government “” decided that "to meet regional demand" the airport would be built at Schönefeld, already the site of
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