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This podcast is outdated, right? It talks about the Brandenburg airport as if it had not finished. The deeply troubled airport is in fact open and in full service since 2020.

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It’s in fact not finished. If you go to the website you will find out they have only opened three of the five terminals. They took the old neighboring airport and have temporarily named that “Terminal 5.”

I was just there on Friday and it was amazing how unfinished things are. Panels missing, no seating near some gates.

It’s a very nice mall that happens to have airplane gates.

Really though, the airport’s homepage sells it the best.

https://berlin-airport-brandenburg.com/

> Shopping Therapy at Berlin Airport Both Terminals 1 and 5 (Terminal 2 is not operational yet) offer a “shopping heaven”, large shopping areas where you can find whatever you may look for. Last-minute presents, famous brands, local stores, BER airport has all the answers depending on your desires! Are you travelling on a budget and want to avoid unnecessary expenses? Take a walk and go for window shopping. Still a pleasing and relaxing experience!

Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..

I've read that Seal Team 6 was named that to throw off foreign adversaries to think that the US had 6 teams at the time.

well the seperate airport is basically on the other side and was already in full rename at around ~2018. (I was there and it was crammed...)

> in full service

Have you been there? It’s a bit of a weird ghost-town. Definitely not quite in ‘full service.’

I've been there a short time ago, and had an approximately 30 minutes of security queue, so I wouldn't classify it as ghost town :)

As Berlin's only airport, people are obviously flying out of it. But huge portions of the airport are very obviously unfinished.

What surprised me, given it's meant to be a shopping heaven, is how few food shops there are. At BER to get food we had to queue for a long time because every single food shop (there were only ~4-~5) had giant queues and there were nowhere near enough seats. Large areas remained panelled off. It seems like they struggled to get enough shops. The food places that did exist were real basic e.g. one was a currywurst shop.

There are multiple episodes and the latest deals with the opening / pandemic fallout

It is, but I live in Berlin and it's an absolutely shitty airport.

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