New Berlin airport opens 9 years late with little ceremony
Associated PressBERLIN — Nine years late and far above its original budget, Berlin’s new airport finally opened on Saturday with little fanfare as the aviation industry struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Luetke Daldrup said that investing in the airport would pay off in the long term and it “will be an important guarantor for the economic development of the region.” BER is located just outside Berlin’s city limits, with connections to the German capital and beyond from a railway station underneath the main terminal. Its opening spells the end for the former West Berlin’s relatively central but cramped Tegel airport, the busier of the two small Cold War-era airports that so far served the reunited city. The former East Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport, which is located across the runways from BER, is being incorporated into the new airport as its “Terminal 5.” Tegel and Schoenefeld handled a total 35.6 million passengers last year, putting Berlin in third place in Germany behind the Frankfurt and Munich hubs.
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