New Berlin Airport Needs Up to €1B More Before Opening: Report

Jan. 8, 2018

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin’s much-delayed new airport needs up to 1 billion euros in extra funds before it can open, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said on Sunday, in what would be another setback for the project which is expected to open in October 2020.

The report said the management of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), which runs Berlin’s airports, had told the supervisory board before Christmas how much more money it would need.

No one at FBB was immediately available to comment when contacted by Reuters.

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