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
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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