"Now, though, it looks as though the opening of the new Berlin
Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (BER) -- already thrice delayed -- will
be pushed back yet again. Amann, who has plenty of experience
constructing airports, is unable to say with certainty whether the
airport will be ready for prime time in March. Sources close to the
supervisory board say that he intends to ask for an additional month to
evaluate the state of the airport's construction.
The delay is not without consequences. As long as no date has been
fixed for the facility's opening, it is impossible to finalize financing
efforts to cover the at least €1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) in cost
overruns. And that means that the situation of the state airport
operating company, which is already slowly running out of money, has
become even more precarious.
...Furthermore, it is not even clear if the federal government is prepared
to grant additional funding to the airport project. "Given the chaotic
situation and jurisdictions, there can be no additional financial
concessions granted to the new capital city airport … in the upcoming
negotiations for the 2013 federal budget,"
--http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-berlin-airport-opening-delayed-again-amid-financing-chaos-a-850396.html
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Update 1/18/2016
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berlin-s-futuristic-airport-became-a-6-billion-embarrassment
Now the airport might not open until 2018.
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