Unrelated, but dear god, did a highlighter throw up on this website? It burns!

I think this was my favorite part of the whole article:

In March 2012 the group submitted its stopgap: Eight hundred low-paid workers armed with cell phones would take up positions throughout the terminal. If anyone smelled smoke or saw a fire, he would alert the airport fire station and direct passengers toward the exit

Because the best way to prevent a fire is to introduce more people, obviously.

This part sickens me, though:

The government spends €16 million per month just to prevent the huge facility from falling into disrepair

Because some business doesn't know what the hell they're doing, they've become a drain on the people without providing any sort of value. Shoulda just let the company go bust in my opinion.

I laughed when the Commissioner heard the group's proposal. 800 dudes to stop a fire? 800 dudes in seats, sipping coffee, just sitting there? That's something I'd expect to see in a comedy movie or a Third World country (and I come from one, so maybe not even), not Germany...

Yeah, that's been a pretty big scandal for the last few years. Especially considering that there already was (or is) a very similar project, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg that suffered from exploding costs too. They mention it in the article. I added a link with that and some more fuck-ups. It's really emberassing to be honest...

Whenever you land at Schönefeld, you see the airport at the other side of the runway. It looks so modern and fancy and then the plane parks at Schönefeld, the airport of East-Berlin :-D