Berlin Schönefeld Airport: Good-bye BBI, Welcome BER

Finally. The aiport opening is scheduled for 3 June 2012 and the baby got the right name: BBI. Probably for the last 5 years people have been asking why they are still calling the new Schönefeld airport BBI, since this IATA code is long gone. It is the name of the Indian airport of Bhubaneswar.

How many names does BER actually have? Which is the middle name? Let's see:

"BER - Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg - Willy Brandt." 

The latter looks good but nobody will remember it. The other Berlin airport, Tegel, is "Otto-Lilienthal". If you do not look out of the airport window before departure or after arrival you will never know.

We will watch closely the countdown to the end of Europe's currently biggest airport construction site.