BERLIN - Germany will breathe a collective sigh of relief on Oct 31 when the new Berlin airport finally opens. It will be nothing short of a nightmare coming to an end.
Haunted by numerous construction troubles, frequent changes of management and repeated postponements to the reopening, the airport had become something of a bad joke. German engineering prowess, oft vaunted as the world's best, became fodder for taunts in Berlin.
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