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BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport

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12 May 2011

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4,000 metres in length and 60 metres in breadth – our southern runway’s completed. I’m proud, I’ll admit it. We had begun with the earthworks three years ago. A year later, we cast concrete. The taxiways and aprons have been finalised now, too. For the entire manoeuvring surface (landing strips, taxiways and aprons), all 1.7 million square metres of it, my boys used 1.1 million cubic metres of cement.

Just in case you’re wondering about my referring to landing strips: we have two of them. This way, airplanes can start and land at the same time in future, without getting in the way of each other. Between the two runways, within the 1,900 metres separating them, you can check in at the terminal, sleep in the hotel or park your car.

And how it blazes, our new southern runway! Yesterday we tested the runway beaconing. That’s what the lights are called that show the way to the airplanes. We installed these over a period of two years, laying altogether 1,125 kilometres of special airport cable for it. We also set up 485 signs for the pilots to orient themselves by. With these in place, nothing should go wrong when taking off and landing.