Berliners laugh and cry over the long delayed third airport
BER remains unfinished and shut five years after its opening was halted due to technical and other reasons
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Berlin
LUFTHANSA had its planes ready and German Chancellor Angela Merkel was lined up for the ribbon-cutting ceremony - all was in place for the opening of Berlin's state-of-the-art airport on June 3, 2012.
Except the airport itself. Five years on, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) remains unfinished, shuttered and a byword for fiasco in a country usually better known for its engineering prowess and obsession with punctuality. Construction had begun back in 2006 for the mega-project set to replace the German capital's two ageing and saturated airports - Tegel and Schoenefeld.
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