A former department head at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) admitted in court on Tuesday to being handed a huge amounts of cash in a carpark by an employee of the firm Imtech, which had been contracted to work on the long-delayed airport project.
Travellers are set to wait still longer for Berlin's much-delayed new airport to open, as city media report that a provisional opening date in late 2017 is no longer achievable.
Berlin's new airport has been blighted by delays and corruption. Now the farce has taken a darker turn, as police investigate the possible attempted poisoning of a whistleblower.
The man formerly responsible for planning Berlin’s much-delayed international airport has claimed the air hub will never open, after a series of failures have left city authorities red faced.
The new spin doctor for Berlin’s embarrassingly delayed new airport found honesty doesn’t pay in his business on Monday, after just three months in the job.
Berlin's long-delayed BER international airport has been hit by yet another hold-up, as authorities announced late on Monday that 600 walls in the terminal need to be rebuilt.
Work on Berlin's much-delayed new BER airport has suffered another setback as builders had to down tools on Monday over fears that the roof could not support the air conditioning units that have been installed.
Berlin's troubled international airport project, already five years behind schedule, has been fraught by mismanagement, fraud and corruption, and a vicious streak of bad luck.
Berlin's beleaguered BER airport, currently delayed four years past its original opening date, has a new boss in former Rolls Royce manager Karsten MĂĽhlenfeld, it was announced at the weekend.
Managing Berlin's grounded BER airport project carries a high-flying annual salary, reportedly around €600,000 plus a hefty bonus. But who will land in the hot seat vacated by Hartmut Mehdorn, who resigned on Monday after he said he was 'bullied'?
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport CEO Hartmut Mehdorn announced on Monday that he is stepping down from his position as soon as the airport authority finds his replacement.
The new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) doesn’t even have an opening date but it’s already too small, so CEO Hartmut Mehdorn asked for additional investments to build another terminal on Friday.
Airport bosses want another €3.2 billion to finish off Berlin's scandal-dogged attempt to build a new international airport, according to reports, because it is too small.
Police used force to clear protesting refugees from Berlin's television tower late on Wednesday as far-right activists held a counter-demonstration at the popular tourist site.
The man responsible for designing the fire safety system at Berlin’s new airport - the main reason for the continuing delays to the calamitous €5 billion project - has admitted he was not a qualified engineer.
Thousands of secret planning documents for Berlin's catastrophic BER airport project were found dumped in skips on Monday night - kilometres away from the building site.
Hopes of saving Berlin’s new international airport have fallen on the shoulders of a Siemens engineer. Jörg Marks was named technical director of the disastrous project on Wednesday and said completing the €5-billion airport was “technologically feasible”.
The technical director of Berlin’s hopelessly delayed new international airport was fired on Wednesday amid a probe into corruption allegations against him.
Two years ago today Europe’s biggest infrastructure project was supposed to open. This weekend I could be flying home through it - a still shiny terminal costing €4 billion hailed as a symbol of reunified Germany.
The boss of Berlin’s long-delayed new airport said on Monday he couldn’t rule out further cases of corruption in the massively over budget project which is engulfed in a bribery scandal.
Berlin's disastrous airport project was hit with another scandal on Wednesday after its technical director was suspended pending an investigation into alleged corruption.
The endless delays to Berlin’s new airport are being fully felt at the capital’s two existing flight hubs, both of which are bursting at the seams - and things could get worse.
Berlin's overdue, over-budget airport needs a further €1.1 billion of taxpayers' money, it was reported on Tuesday. The current budget would only last until the end of the year, bosses said.
