After a near-decade delay, BER airport will finally open on Oct. 31

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 9:41 a.m.

Mismanagement, corruption charges, dubious design plans and a series of technical mishaps led to delay after delay since the first scheduled opening of the Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in 2011. So ahead of the much-beleaguered airport's official "takeoff" on Oct. 31, we\u2019re hearing from people who have been following and a part of this story since the beginning.