Berlin’s new Berlin-Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport is officially in operation, with first-day inbound flights on Saturday and first flights out yesterday.
TravelGumbo has been holding its breath on this one since we first covered the incredible saga of delay, error, fires, corruption and more that have kept Berliners and the world waiting for an airport that some have now called ‘so last-decade.’
We’ve covered the story in over twenty articles, starting in February, 2014, when the airport was only three years overdue and had not yet ballooned to a construction cost of over €7 billion, three times its planned cost.
But perhaps we should just put that all aside and breathe a sigh of relief that it’s actually finished, and that not even climate-change protesters on the roof were able to stop the first twin arrivals, side-by-side on parallel runways, of flights by Lufthansa and EasyJet.
Photo: the first two arrivals, greeted with a watery salute
