Expected to open in June, Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, a single new, robust air hub for Germany's capital, is nearing completion. Located 18 kilometers southeast of the city center, it will incorporate one runway from Schonefeld Airport, the smaller of Berlin’s two existing airports.
The new hub will have an initial capacity of 27 million passengers per year, which will make it Germany’s third-busiest airport, behind Frankfurt (47 million) and Munich (32 million). Its design calls for two additional satellite terminals to be added in the future, which will eventually bring its capacity to 45 million. While Schonefeld was 500 hectares, Berlin Brandenburg is almost triple in scale, at 1,470 hectares. Construction is expected to cost $4.4 billion.