Berlin Schönefeld Airport: Airport age should complement BER after opening – Tagesspiegel

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The airport’s supervisory board elects the Governing Mayor Michael Müller unanimously elected chief overseer. With an “emergency program” is now to be upgraded Schönefeld-old to have enough capacity to BER-opening.

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The message is the new chief overseer obviously important for the unfinished BER Airport. “We want more detail, even short-term information, what happens on the site, if the announcements are respected,” said Berlin’s Governing Render Michael Müller (SPD) on Friday night at Tegel at his first press conference in the new second job. “That can Berlin and Brandenburg expect after all that has happened here in recent years.” But currently agree that “fundamental direction” the BER, the timetable will processed largely on schedule, so that the new airport by the end of 2017 could go operation.

Now the rulers is so chief overseer of that “curse harbor”, who had to withdraw his predecessor Klaus Wowereit accelerated. In the morning he had been elected, unanimously, the nearly seven-hour meeting had passed. Very stringent, result-oriented, such as a supervisory board said, “without baroque attitudes as Wowereit.” There was a been “working session”, Müller underlined.

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However, are “decisions of principle” has been taken. One concerns the old Schönefeld airport. The Supervisory Board gave the green light for an “emergency program”, so that the airport can be upgraded in 2015 for three million euros. Because Ryanair subtract autumn with five aircraft to Berlin, said airport manager Karsten Mühlenfeld. And there is agreement also that Schönefeld-old is also used by the BER opening for a “transitional period” in order to check in the 2017 in Berlin expected 33 million passengers.

numbers called Werder Müller still Mühlenfeld

Because the new, already too small BER terminal is initially able to cope with only 23 million passengers. Already in 2014 flew 28 million people to and from Berlin. And by 2017, a temporary terminal – as the C-terminal in Tegel – no longer done, explained Mühlenfeld. “The last three years.” The airport manager received by the Supervisory Board now the order to submit to the September meeting a “Master Plan”, such as the airport can be expanded. Intern is already clear that Schönefeld-Alt will play a supporting role, what further investments – could necessitate – earlier estimates decreased from around 177 million euros.

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numbers to named either Müller still Mühlenfeld. There is an agreement on the future government airport, the construction of which the regular and approved location – right on the old Schönefeld-Terminal – can not start because of the BER debacle. The Supervisory Board now decided that the provisional government therefore required terminal at the site “Ramp 1″ – southwest of Schönefelder terminal building – can be built. There should then be received from 2017/2018 state guests. Later, the building, around 20 million euros expensive, designed for General Aviation.

How long Schönefeld-Alt is required parallel to the BER continues, remains open. Mühlenfeld spoke of “five years”, which would be until 2022/2023, but committed himself not that will then be final, to be continued. Whether extension, finance, smoke extraction system and cable lines in the terminal: “At our most important project,” as Müller put it, there are enough problems for the chief overseer.

Berlin has the control again taken

This is evidenced by the presented financial statements for 2014. After that, the airport operating company of Berlin, Brandenburg and the federal government made on a turnover of 288 million Euro 2014 in the balance sheet a decrease of EUR 171 million, ie writes deeply in the red, followed by up to BER opening also will not change. Airport CEO Mühlenfeld worked the issue at the press conference for even the fastest of. And the Brandenburg? Airport State Secretary Rainer Brettschneider, who had headed the Supervisory Board provisionally for half a year, is now back Vice.

At the press conference he was not there. Berlin has taken over the control again. But sitting on the podium miller BER man, Engelbert Daldrup, the Baustaatssekretär and airport coordinator who for Berlin – goes to the Finance Committee and the Project Committee of the Supervisory Board – a novelty. He assured: “We will take care intensively around the airport.”

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