Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport will not open until spring of next year at the earliest.
According to German newspaper Bild, the airport will probably not open until March of next year to coincide with the time that Airlines launch their summer timetables.
Last week Berlin authorities called off the opening of the airport on June 3 after inspectors would not certify the airport’s ability to handle a fire.
Airlines, including Lufthansa and airberlin among others face losses and logistical challenges as they have to revamp their timetables that were originally set to be effective on June 2.
Once open, Berlin Brandenburg will be Germany’s 3rd largest airport, behind Frankfurt and Munich.
As will the subpoenas and lawsuits……Looks like a few heads rolled earlier today.
The opening date for the new BER airport has now been announced as March 17, 2013. Heads will be rolling.
You will land at Tegel (TXL) if you are on most full-service airlines. Some LCCs use Schoenefeld (SXF).
Tegel is much closer to town, although the only transit access is by bus.
Well that’s certainly interesting. Doubly so since myself and the wife are scheduled to fly into Berlin in July. Wonder where we’ll land at…
So much for German efficency! The lawsuits are coming…
A new date hasn’t been set but the speculation is strong that it will be in 2013.
I do agree that Bild is perhaps the least credible German newspaper, but I’m reading the same thing in the Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung.
The way this was handled by the airport management and its public board is truly a scandal. They already had reports in February and March that the June date was impossible to meet, yet up until May 8 they were telling everyone it would open on June 3. As a result AB & LH had already begun filling their fule tanks and moving spare parts, and shopkeepers outfitted their shops and hired employees. Every magazine and map in Berlin has an article about the great new airport and invitations were issued to a gala grand opening party. They should have been able to be more realistic about their progress to completion and create less disruption. Clearly a project management failure.
Unconfirmed and so far just speculation by the Bild tabloid.