Do you remember? It’s exactly three years since the Berliner Tageszeitung splashed “Six shovels for Schoenefeld” across its cover page, announcing the first spadeful dug for the new Capital City Airport BBI. Three years, oh my – so much has been done since then! This summer, my girlfriend Antonia and I were able to see for ourselves just how much has been done. “For ages, you couldn’t see anything on the construction site,” she remarked just recently, when we were up the BBI Infotower, surveying the biggest airport construction site in Europe, “and suddenly you don’t know where to look first.”

And she’s quite right.

Because where until recently only planners and architects could envisage an airport on the famous sandy soil of Brandenburg, a brand-new terminal now stands tall. You simply cannot miss it! What’s more, a week ago we were able to make a start on the steel structure for the terminal roof, the shell of the north pier is already finished and work on the aprons and the new runway is really making great headway.

It almost makes me a bit sad to think that the exciting construction period will come to an end one day – but only a little bit because naturally I am already really looking forward to the topping-out ceremony for the BBI terminal we will be holding next year. That will be in the spring.

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