Jumping the gun? Grand expansion plans for yet to be opened Berlin-Brandenburg Airport unveiled

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Berlin’s new international airport still hasn’t opened its doors. Nonetheless the airport boss has just completed grand plans for an extension to be carried out in five stages.

Engelbert Lütke Daldrup is planning to expand Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) to ensure that the forecasted number of passengers for the as-yet unopened building can be handled at any time, Tagesspiegel reported on Sunday.

By 2040, up to 58 million passengers should be able to fly from or land at BER. The total cost of the expansion is estimated at €2.3 billion.

Expansion plans for the airport are laid out in five phases in “Masterplan 2040,” a report which airport boss Lütke Daldrup has already submitted to the project’s supervisory board.

A key element of the plan is the inclusion of a second terminal building opposite the existing Terminal One. The airport’s own transport system is also in the works so that an Airport City with offices and hotels and more parking garages can be built.

Lütke Daldrup also intends to increase the main terminal’s capacity by five million passengers by installing two more baggage carousels. So far there are eight carousels in the main terminal which accommodate 22 million passengers.

Another element to the expansion is the building of a new terminal called Terminal T-1E to accommodate more passengers. The new terminal would initially raise BER’s capacity to 33 million passengers.

But these expansion plans might seem like jumping the gun amidst all the planning failures the airport has been hit by.

A former project planner last year predicted the airport may never open.

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