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New Berlin airport to finally open next October

December 1st 2019

Berlin's long-delayed airport has a new opening date, operators announced on Friday.

Airport chief Engelbert Lütke Daldrup said he was certain the first planes would land there on October 31, 2020, and the first departures would take place the following day.

The airport management admits that there is still a lot of work to be done before this date, including a final check from the watchdog body TÜV and live tests involving crowds of some 20,000 volunteers.

"The date stands," Daldrup told reporters on Friday.

The premier of Brandenburg, Dietmar Woidke, said he was optimistic that "this time it would happen."

Even if the airport is opened next year, however, the date would not signal the end of construction work. The number of passengers flying in and out of Berlin has grown significantly since the hub was first designed decades ago, and its capacities are already being expanded.