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Berlin’s $7 Billion Airport Finally Opens in the Depths of a Crisis
The project’s history — an eight-year delay, automatic doors that lacked electricity, too-short escalators — is an embarrassing tale for Germany.
Berlin's new airport finally opened its doors this weekend, welcoming passengers after an eight-year delay just as fallout from the coronavirus hammers travel demand.
Planes from Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Easyjet Plc. landed at Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport — known by its airport code BER — shortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday to inaugurate the hub. Regular departures start Sunday with an early flight to London.