Today finally saw the construction start for Berlins new airport.
The whole project will cost 2 billion euros and the airport should be finished in 2011.

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:


http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8438/bbi7da.jpg
http://www.bz-berlin.de/aktuell/berlin/060905/SCHOeNEFELD.OK1B19CK/1_big.jpg
http://www.morgenpost.de/images/2006/09/05/berlin/123006_scaleUp.jpg

layout from top:

http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/berlin/images/BERLIN4.jpg


more info here:
http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/berlin/

Looks really impressive and big! Will all traffic from Berlin Tegel and Schunefield operate from this new airport? How many passengers is it expected to handle in its first year of operations etc?

Forgive me for my ignorance. I've never heard of this project!
Could anybody tell me about the airport and its facilities?

Forgive me for my ignorance. I've never heard of this project!
Could anybody tell me about the airport and its facilities?
More information :
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=327828
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=342893
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=385776

Looks really impressive and big! Will all traffic from Berlin Tegel and Schunefield operate from this new airport? How many passengers is it expected to handle in its first year of operations etc?

Schönefeld is being expanded to become Airport Berlin Brandenburg International. Tegel and Tempelhof will be closed when BBI is finished.

2005: Schönefeld, Tegel, Tempelhof: 17.2 million passengers

2011: BBI approx. 22 million passengers

^^ Well its not sure if Tegel is going to be closed is it?

Forgive me for my ignorance. I've never heard of this project!
Could anybody tell me about the airport and its facilities?

Basically its just a new airport that will be built on the site of the old Schoenefeld airport (one of 3 airports in Berlin)
It is necessary to built the BBI because Berlin hasnt go a real international airport so far.
Schoenefeld itself is tiny and rather outdated.
The city needs a new airport to catch up with the growing tourist market and to remain interesting for investors.

^How will that terminal in the middle of the aircraft parking slots will be connected to the main terminal?
From what I've heard, that fancy bridge won't be build.

A new airport for Berlin? The rendering with the bridge over the planes looks pretty futuristic. Looks cool!

^^ The bridge walkway has been cut from the final plans. :(

A lot of the information about BBI is in the threads hkskyline posted. It appears his airport is one of those topics that generates interest every two months or so and then...

More information :
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=327828
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=342893
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=385776
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^How will that terminal in the middle of the aircraft parking slots will be connected to the main terminal?
From what I've heard, that fancy bridge won't be build.

good question.
I dont know how it will be connected. Maybe via an underground connection.

two reports on german television about the construction start:
(double click on the video to see it in full size)

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/23/0,4070,3975159-5,00.html

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/25/0,4070,3974905-5,00.html

a really nice proyect

Frightening, since it will be a competitor to CPH! :)

Oh my! It looks _very_ impressive. :)

smart layout

Frightening, since it will be a competitor to CPH! :)
Well not really since afaik LH is not interested in making BBI a hub. I guess regarding LH and longhaul its just going to be feeder traffic to FRA or MUC.

Tomesh,
But I'm guessing that BBI will get a lot more long-haul routes from foreign carries than the three current airports get today, right?
Although I'm aware of the fact that it won't get the hub status that FRA, MUC or even CPH enjoys.

^^ I really wonder if many different carriers are going to start opening BBI routes... its gonna be interesting and I guess only time will tell. Berlin and the surrounding areas are not particularly rich, nor are there many business travellers atm so i wonder how it is going to grow....

Looks good. If this is supposed to be the international airport, will two runways be enough?? I guess it will depend on flight paths and restriction hours.