Berlin Brandenburg International Airport - Teaching Note

Just after German reunification in 1990, plans were made for a single, new airport to concentrate all the traffic of the new capital Berlin. Twenty-five years later, Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BER) was still not operational. The project was amassing mistakes and had already seen four delays, due mainly to the fire detection system. At the end of December 2014, the Supervisory Board announced that the airport would finally open in the second half of 2017 - more than six years after the initially planned date. The new plan would be implemented by the airport operator's new CEO, Karsten Mühlenfeld. Everybody wondered whether he could finally get the airport operational and save its image. Or, like his predecessors, would he too be unable to control the project's chaos and complexity?