Here I am, back again, wonderfully refreshed after the long Christmas break and bursting with energy for the forthcoming events on the BBI construction site. As usual, I gave up on all my excellent New Year’s resolutions before it had really begun. Don’t even ask! It’s all nonsense, anyway. I much prefer concrete targets and we already have three of those lined up for this year.

In May, we will be reopening the A 113, Berlin’s inner-city motorway so that from then on it will be directly connected to the southern section of the Berliner Ring (A 10). In other words, people will be able to drive to Schoenefeld Airport from Berlin in a matter of minutes.

Next on the list: we will be starting on the construction of the terminal, the most important part of the new airport. The facts melt like butter in your mouth: on six floors passengers can eat, drink, relax and – how could I forget – depart and arrive, of course. To begin with, the BBI will be designed to handle 22 to 25 million passengers.

Then we will extend – as necessary. On 31 October, we bid farewell to Tempelhof Airport. When you think that Tempelhof became the world’s first aviation hub in the Twenties and Thirties, it’s hard not to feel a little melancholy. But we’re looking ahead. And for the future there can be only one airport: the BBI. And that’s why it will once again be all systems go for us in the second year of construction.

Wersja drukowana berlin-airport.de (Copyright Berliner Flughäfen)