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BER - Port Lotniczy Berlin Brandenburg

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1 November 2010

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Passenger boarding bridge, bus or Shanks’s pony? When I fly somewhere, I never know how I will make my way from the passenger boarding bridge - or as we usually call it, a jetty - to get from one dry place to another without getting wet – definitely the best plan if you’re wearing high-heeled shoes. Personally, I like to catch a breath of airport atmosphere outside on the tarmac.

At the BBI, our passengers will be able to proceed to the aircraft or terminal via jetties, on foot across the apron or by bus. We are installing a total of 25 steel-and-glass jetties. Fifteen of the ones on the main pier will be double-deckers, which will allow passengers to board and alight their plane simultaneously via the upper and lower deck.

At the moment, my lads are busy assembling the steel jetty structures for the main pier. How? It’s quite simple, really, a little bit like piecing together building blocks, step by step – only in our case the building blocks are lattice girders, floodlight masts, roof panels and ramps. The individual modules are delivered to us and we then assemble them on site. Of course, we don’t do all of this by hand. A roof panel alone weighs about 38 tons so we are glad to have mobile cranes to help us.

We have already completed the steel skeletons of eight jetties and are now putting in the glass facades. By March of next year, we plan to have completed all of the jetties. Antonia is going to like them.