The still unopened BER airport. The still unopened BER airport has become a running joke for locals, and a painful topic for officials. Five years on, and the BER airport remains unfinished, shuttered and a byword for fiasco in a country usually better known for its engineering prowess and obsession with punctuality. Meanwhile BER's building costs more than tripled from the €1.7 billion ($1.9 billion) initially budgeted to more than €6 billion ($6.7 billion) to date. Today, Lufthansa and its subsidiary Eurowings link Berlin to 30 destinations from Tegel airport, and the carrier has kept BER off its flights plans for coming years.

Source: The Local June 01, 2017 06:22 UTC