Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  5 років тому +1686

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    • @whatdidijustmakeedits657
      @whatdidijustmakeedits657 5 років тому +14

      Use me uwu

    • @teddyboragina6437
      @teddyboragina6437 5 років тому +24

      I've worked security and let me tell you that the idea to hire "fire spotters" was something I saw coming. Yes, this is a real thing that's really done. I've done a fire spotting shift. Normally its temporary (for example, we had to cover a 36 hour gap while they physically moved the security office) but yes; this is a real thing that people/companies do.

    • @someone660
      @someone660 5 років тому +7

      1:55 you said 2018!!!!! Love the video tho

    • @MinecraftSMGbros
      @MinecraftSMGbros 5 років тому +2

      That's awesome

    • @Luca-iq4ev
      @Luca-iq4ev 5 років тому

      Where should videos be submitted? There is a link in your description to your website which is broken and only gives a 404 Error, then there's a link from your main website and then there's this google forms link...

  • @arabtrappers6934
    @arabtrappers6934 5 років тому +4749

    There was a german satire article about the BER (der Postillion) that stated „terrorist who planned to do a terror attack once the airport is finished died from old age“ 😂

    • @franceswildgen1907
      @franceswildgen1907 5 років тому +11

      aviation for live I can’t read that. What does it say?

    • @krazyfrog
      @krazyfrog 5 років тому +85

      @@franceswildgen1907 Take a guess.

    • @franceswildgen1907
      @franceswildgen1907 5 років тому +9

      Prasad Naik hmmmmmmm is it confirming what they were saying?

    • @franceswildgen1907
      @franceswildgen1907 5 років тому +11

      Brylle Cruz yeah it did :(

    • @arabtrappers6934
      @arabtrappers6934 5 років тому +192

      According to the documents found in his apartment, al-Majid had moved to Germany in 1995 - at that time still in the service of al-Qaeda - as a sleeper to commit a major attack. He quickly agreed with his superiors that the then already specifically planned new capital airport would be an appropriate destination. "Such an airport construction can not take too long in Germany," it says in a fax that al-Majid received at that time from the al-Qaida headquarters. "The Germans are known for their diligence."
      However, when al-Majid procured explosives and weapons after two years and made a concrete plan of attack based on the blueprints, the construction had not even begun.
      For al-Majid a decades-long wait began - countless cut newspaper articles indicate how anxious the terrorist watched the course of the planning. 2005, ten years after his arrival in Germany, a court freezed construction after several urgent petitions,al-Majid wrote angry letters under the pseudonym "Hans-Dieter Gebhardt" to several editorial offices, in which he complained as an "upright taxpayer" on the planning mess.
      When the construction work finally started in 2007, the 64-year-old's confidence increased. But with each opening date, the waiting became more and more unbearable. His hopes of being assigned a new target in 2013 with a change to terrorist militia IS were quickly disappointed. A message on his mobile says: "A new capital city airport is the perfect stop target." Stay in this, brother, it will surely be finished soon. Most recently, al-Majid seemed to resign. He stopped adapting his plans to the state-of-the-art airport fire safety measures. His notes from 2017 draw the picture of a broken old man. "Why does Allah mock me?", It says in the last entry before his death. "I notice how my powers are dwindling." The terrorist militia IS paid tribute to al-Majid in a press release and declared him a martyr, who was killed by a devious trick of the infidels.

  • @hanswurst6712
    @hanswurst6712 4 роки тому +12224

    Germany is the only country which has a 1:1 scale model of an airport.
    Its amazing, it should be promoted as a great tourist attraction.

    • @scurvofpcp
      @scurvofpcp 4 роки тому +496

      I'm fairly sure Germany has already done the deathtrap tourist attractions thing in the past.

    • @ifly6
      @ifly6 4 роки тому +364

      Can't. It's a fire hazard lol

    • @ryan_lmao
      @ryan_lmao 4 роки тому +26

      @@scurvofpcp that is a fat F

    • @phoenix4977
      @phoenix4977 4 роки тому +130

      @Simon Eminger That sounds like something you have a referendum for, just not after its built.

    • @dillonm913
      @dillonm913 4 роки тому +63

      Open it up as a paintball ground

  • @charliethechaplin
    @charliethechaplin 5 років тому +9438

    This airport sounds like every group project I've ever been on

    • @stefanwalicord2512
      @stefanwalicord2512 5 років тому +348

      Close to brand new and completely non functional

    • @LenCpotato
      @LenCpotato 5 років тому +10

      Declan K same man

    • @LordPecka
      @LordPecka 5 років тому +170

      Your group projects certainly had higher budgets then mine I have to say.

    • @sabersz
      @sabersz 5 років тому +7

      Saaame

    • @flexischwarz9920
      @flexischwarz9920 5 років тому +21

      I live in Berlin and i agree that Schönefeld is shit but Tegel ist very good. I checkt in and got troug security in 10min once.

  • @19Yannick99
    @19Yannick99 3 роки тому +2024

    update by a german citizen: it has opened a few days ago and it already rains trough the roof. also, the way you pronounce Schönefeld is hilarious.

  • @TheHeavyshadow
    @TheHeavyshadow 5 років тому +1949

    A smoke-detection and fire-preventing-system that is prone to catching fire. And then people say we have no sense of humor.

    • @Vollification
      @Vollification 4 роки тому +26

      German humor consists of fire? Ok...

    • @TheJovianGaming
      @TheJovianGaming 4 роки тому +40

      Vollification it did 80 years ago

    • @schris3
      @schris3 4 роки тому +20

      Yes, but your humor is so dry that many people think is anti humor.

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 4 роки тому +19

      @@schris3 And sometimes darker, than morning coffee.

    • @Vollification
      @Vollification 4 роки тому +5

      @Chris Russell Are they supposed to be a comedy?
      If so the invasion of Poland must have been "for the lulz" :p

  • @larsbredereke3856
    @larsbredereke3856 5 років тому +3847

    As a German I thought that every possible joke about this airport had already been made but you proved me wrong

    • @jort93z
      @jort93z 5 років тому +271

      The whole airport is one gigantic joke.

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 5 років тому +171

      Our local major dictionary actually has made its own tense on april 1th a few years back, _just_ for the airport. It was something around the lines of "will would could", to signify something that _might_ happen in the future but not necessarily on the given date.

    • @larsbredereke3856
      @larsbredereke3856 5 років тому +37

      @@slyseal2091 I actually didn't know that. Thought this was just a "Postillon" article.

    • @jort93z
      @jort93z 5 років тому +9

      @@slyseal2091 Do you have a source? Doesn't seem very reasonable.
      Though, i suppose dictionary's can do april fools too?

    • @Thx_And_Bye
      @Thx_And_Bye 5 років тому +44

      @@larsbredereke3856 Yes it's satire from the Postillon www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/neue-zeitform-futur-iii-eingefuhrt-um.html

  • @xxmaxeixx
    @xxmaxeixx 5 років тому +4010

    The real question is: Where will people land first? On Berlin Airport or on Mars?

    • @CAESARbonds
      @CAESARbonds 5 років тому +108

      With the progress of spaceX and the probability of ber never to operate well tough guess

    • @WAJK2030
      @WAJK2030 5 років тому +124

      Oh fuck. This is actually a thing...

    • @magical_catgirl
      @magical_catgirl 5 років тому +40

      Aircraft land at BER all the time. It uses the same runways as SXF. Just no one uses the terminal.

    • @rabasi8330
      @rabasi8330 5 років тому

      Reaching the sea floor

    • @Laviarty
      @Laviarty 5 років тому +27

      Mars. Definitely Mars. They even have to replace every dowel used for holding the wall plates, since they are not fireproof. This airport is a total mess

  • @CityWhisperer
    @CityWhisperer 4 роки тому +334

    Something to add, it emerged that in the winter of 2013, no one knew how to turn the terminal lights off, so they were left to burn day and night for weeks on end.

    • @ATIMELINEOFAVIATION
      @ATIMELINEOFAVIATION 3 роки тому +9

      sounds like a 21st century problem

    • @ebubeawachie
      @ebubeawachie 3 роки тому +5

      Why should terminal lights ever need to go off in an international airport? 🤨

    • @CityWhisperer
      @CityWhisperer 3 роки тому +41

      @@ebubeawachie Because the airport was closed and had no activity.

    • @refraggedbean
      @refraggedbean Рік тому +2

      @@CityWhisperer but, in a normal functioning airport, why would it close? these are 24hr facilities usually accepting planes at all times of day, so in most cases you wouldn't actually have to turn anything off

    • @dbclass4075
      @dbclass4075 Рік тому +9

      @@refraggedbean You still want to turn them off in case of electrical fires, or part of the maintenance.

  • @rubymasta
    @rubymasta 5 років тому +13931

    Don't you dare to make fun of our proudest project: The worlds first emission-free airport!

    • @OLBastholm
      @OLBastholm 5 років тому +624

      But one of the problems is that the air vents don't work. That's not good for a port for air.

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 5 років тому +143

      @@OLBastholm my nigga he was joking

    • @namewarvergeben
      @namewarvergeben 5 років тому +391

      @@bababababababa6124 so was he

    • @elisassoon5791
      @elisassoon5791 5 років тому +45

      That really made me laugh! that is a true half as interesting comment!

    • @uwu_senpai
      @uwu_senpai 5 років тому +172

      German ecology engineering. Next step: closing nuclear reactor to open coal plant! Oh wait...

  • @the_godfather9974
    @the_godfather9974 4 роки тому +4839

    You forgot to mention that they kept the lights on this entire time because they weren‘t able to locate the switch

    • @rain1641
      @rain1641 4 роки тому +349

      what the actual fu-

    • @blutbaron6126
      @blutbaron6126 4 роки тому +617

      As a german citizen can i say that this is completely the truth

    • @edenteo5099
      @edenteo5099 4 роки тому +52

      Bich wut?

    • @tobi65638
      @tobi65638 4 роки тому +50

      Bruh hahahaha

    • @msnik1047
      @msnik1047 4 роки тому +380

      The Problem was, there was no switch installed that's the reason they were not able to find one

  • @felixw19
    @felixw19 5 років тому +35065

    It´s probably faster and cheaper to find a working Airport and build Berlin next to it

  • @miamicutie-qh6gk
    @miamicutie-qh6gk 2 роки тому +312

    I live in Germany so I've been aware of this whole disaster since 2012, when I was barely 10. Going to the airport last year, actually seeing it with my own two eyes and taking a flight was the most surreal experience ever. It felt like seeing a celebrity or something

    • @Chrnan6710
      @Chrnan6710 Рік тому +33

      I visited Berlin last year and a friend flew in to meet up, I insisted I meet him at the airport because I wanted to see the airport finally functioning

    • @dianapennepacker6854
      @dianapennepacker6854 Рік тому +6

      Crazy how something like an airport can be so complicated and done so badly. See it happen with so many projects.
      How the hell does the wiring get so badly messed up with all the electronicans around. Surely someone must've noticed it and say hey uhh this isn't right. Like Germany who is notorious for inspectors didn't catch it sooner... Also the roof failing WTF?
      It is insane TBH.

    • @marietailor3100
      @marietailor3100 9 місяців тому +3

      IT OPENED?!?! Amazing!!!

  • @chimerathrawn5875
    @chimerathrawn5875 5 років тому +5405

    Even here in Germany people poke fun of Berlin's disaster-airport. 😂
    Did you know that there is a train going to the airport everyday just to make wind and keep the tunnels dry?

    • @iwannabewindowmaker944
      @iwannabewindowmaker944 5 років тому +35

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @FeuerblutRM
      @FeuerblutRM 5 років тому +169

      @icky wriggly hairy ugly spider from Natsuki's poem
      At least there are worse jobs to be paid for 😏

    • @XWierdThingsHappenX
      @XWierdThingsHappenX 5 років тому +331

      @@FeuerblutRM lol I would take that job. Don't have yo deal with ass hole customers. Listen to music or podcasts while you do it. Sounds awesome to me.

    • @chimerathrawn5875
      @chimerathrawn5875 5 років тому +28

      @@acbulgin2 I believe, corruption is the right word...
      It becomes clearly visible in this video: ua-cam.com/video/V49b13fYFik/v-deo.html
      ... It's somewhat sad

    • @Manie230
      @Manie230 5 років тому +46

      acbulgin2 i think that they just wanted to save as much money as possible hired a company that was the company of some friend of a friend of a friend kind of situation and that company was total garbage but they can’t blame the comps because then the public would know that they did that.
      Honestly I don’t think that I will ever fly from that airport in my life time.
      Before I fly from that airport the A3 is completely traffic jam free.

  • @ErnestJay88
    @ErnestJay88 5 років тому +3841

    Best airport ever :
    -No emission
    -No accident
    -No baggage lost
    -No terrorism
    FOR 15 YEARS ! there is no airport in the world with that 100% clean record !

    • @newsgetsold
      @newsgetsold 5 років тому +198

      But the screens were burning electrical energy for 6 years.

    • @Dennis_S1000RR
      @Dennis_S1000RR 5 років тому +356

      "no accident"...
      The whole airport is one big accident😂

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 5 років тому +77

      Clean record? No passengers, yes quite clean.

    • @CAESARbonds
      @CAESARbonds 5 років тому +103

      Not only the screens. All lightning operating 24/7 because no one knew how to turn it off

    • @xpluto13x
      @xpluto13x 5 років тому +52

      Zero crashes, zero deaths, zero fUCKING MOVEMENT!!!

  • @Concorde4711
    @Concorde4711 5 років тому +10543

    That's Gemany. Even our failures are done with outstanding precision.

    • @BreakingBrick
      @BreakingBrick 5 років тому +276

      Yep... Empire? Failed 1918 with precision. Fascism and mass killing? Failed 1945.
      Communism? Failed 1989 with absolutely precision.
      Now, I think the next absolute failure with precision will be capitalism in mid 21st century .

    • @Concorde4711
      @Concorde4711 5 років тому +304

      @@BreakingBrick
      Concusion: Germany has not found it's fitting gouvermental system yet.
      But capitalism is about to fail anyway. Unlimited grow is simply not archivable on a planet with limited resources.

    • @BreakingBrick
      @BreakingBrick 5 років тому +23

      @@Concorde4711 Has Germany ever found it, the right government system?
      People were quite satisfied and happy until Helmut Schmid has taken seat in Bonn.
      Ask elder germans (west or east), they want to have their Germany back (GDR or FRG).
      It's quite funny, both will tell you the same reasons (Jobs, affordable housing, no or less immigration, etc.).
      Moreover the westerners are crying for their old Westgermany.

    • @Concorde4711
      @Concorde4711 5 років тому +90

      @@BreakingBrick No, and there never will be a right gouverment for Germany. Or i should better say for an united Germany. That's because the mentality of the People here are extreme different from region to region. For example: I'm living in North-Rhine-Westphalia and uncontrolled immigration can cause probelms here from time to time, but almost no one is bothered about it, we live together, not without dificulties, but we're able to arrange to each other. On the other hand, in eastern Germany, where almost no immigrants live, the people are complaining about immigrants more often and electing right wing parties.
      They went from one extreme (GDR) to the next one.
      In the West the people are complainig about the reunion because it has thrown Germany into an economical crisis. That's indeed what i personal think about it, the reunion was necessary from a moral point of view, but in economical terms it was a catastrophy.
      That also the reason why i personally think that not Helmut Schmidt screwed it up, but Helmut Kohl did it and Gerhard Schröder has made it even worse.

    • @Kurlzzz501
      @Kurlzzz501 5 років тому +32

      Why do y’all niggas keep saying gourverment its “government”

  • @justinblin
    @justinblin Рік тому +112

    Surprisingly, the airport seems to have opened on schedule in October 2020 and now serves as Berlin’s only airport

    • @ladyweebington1189
      @ladyweebington1189 Рік тому +2

      I was just coming to comment this :)

    • @colinpovey7923
      @colinpovey7923 11 місяців тому +22

      Yes, great timing, again. It opened in the middle of the largest Pandemic to ever hit the planet.

  • @8BlackHawk8
    @8BlackHawk8 5 років тому +1766

    When I was a freshman at university in 2013 our rector joked around about the BER in his speech to the new students. He jokingly said that no engineer trained at his university (biggest technical university in Germany) was involved as far as he knew and said that if we hurry up, we could become engineers in time to save the project. Everyone laughed. But he was wrong, we didn't need to hurry.

    • @valentinmitterbauer4196
      @valentinmitterbauer4196 5 років тому +87

      Oddly enough a few people from my university were involved in Stuttgard 21. I study biology. Those people helped to relocate two species of lizards...

    • @arminator92
      @arminator92 5 років тому +5

      TUM?

    • @8BlackHawk8
      @8BlackHawk8 5 років тому +6

      @@arminator92 No, RWTH.

    • @MrLOLametro
      @MrLOLametro 5 років тому +6

      @Vorname Nachname The 21 in Stuttgart21 is for the 21st century, so we still have some time ^^

    • @lsmacker
      @lsmacker 5 років тому

      Schmachti 😍

  • @jamier65551
    @jamier65551 5 років тому +2496

    "Schnönefeld meanwhile, is worse rated than Aleppo airport, which is in an active war-zone."
    *hmm yes seems about right*

    • @jofaj
      @jofaj 4 роки тому +10

      i actually love SXF airport ;) fastest check-in ;P

    • @FlorianHWave
      @FlorianHWave 4 роки тому +5

      Is it just as ugly as Tegel airport? :D

    • @exosproudmamabear558
      @exosproudmamabear558 4 роки тому +46

      When even active war wont stop you from being the worst

    • @sigmaswag420
      @sigmaswag420 4 роки тому +6

      jofaj I hate Schönefeld but I still find Tegel much more better

    • @simonkraemer3725
      @simonkraemer3725 4 роки тому +32

      @@jofaj it's worse than tegel: you literally have no seats there, people sit on the ground. Other airports have waterfalls, SXF even doesn't have seats. And it's ugly

  • @FelonyArson
    @FelonyArson 4 роки тому +3291

    If you ever feel useless, just remember the 750 screens in the BER Airport that broke after being always on for 6 years

    • @wittyjester
      @wittyjester 4 роки тому +234

      An no-one to look at them. That's sad.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 4 роки тому +207

      My question is, why were they on if the airport wasn't even open?

    • @typie34
      @typie34 4 роки тому +92

      how dumb can these people be wasting that energy. Erbärmlich

    • @DutchDread
      @DutchDread 4 роки тому +66

      I kind of hope people fucking steal the 750 new ones, this is just a waste.

    • @keyed_6727
      @keyed_6727 4 роки тому +27

      An interesting thing to mention is that, atleast at Tegal, is a lot of the advertising, posters and even jackets worn by airport staff say BER on them.

  • @HelloWorld-wf5xc
    @HelloWorld-wf5xc 3 роки тому +143

    The airport actually opened today, October 31st 2020, in the middle of the second wave of the Coronavirus in Germany. This means, that due to the decline in air travel, the airport would actually be insolvent at arrival, if it wasn't for the additional millions the government is subsidising it with. I think we can all agree that this is the only proper way for this airport to enter business.

  • @jerry3790
    @jerry3790 5 років тому +3085

    One way to have a no accident record.

    • @rzu1474
      @rzu1474 5 років тому +40

      There were accidents.

    • @sharkronical
      @sharkronical 5 років тому +11

      Every airplane company ever : Am I a joke to you?

    • @jorenvanderark3567
      @jorenvanderark3567 5 років тому +4

      @@sharkronical
      Berlins response: yes you are.

    • @Gripengamer
      @Gripengamer 5 років тому +1

      @@jorenvanderark3567 r/woooosh

    • @zaidarsalan2960
      @zaidarsalan2960 5 років тому +5

      @@Gripengamer Seriously? STOP WITH THAT SHIT

  • @flopin9888
    @flopin9888 5 років тому +1434

    As someone who lives in Berlin, i can say one thing: I hope we dont run out of jokes about the BER until it is finished.

    • @derLenno
      @derLenno 5 років тому +38

      It's so big of a meme that it will be very hard to get to the point where we run out of jokes.
      Plus, they always give us new content!
      Greetings from Lichtenberg

    • @flopin9888
      @flopin9888 5 років тому +6

      @@derLenno Man weiß ja nie.. Grüße aus Lichtenberg, Karlshorst.

    • @lennartstockl5826
      @lennartstockl5826 5 років тому +9

      Ich lebe in der Einflugsschneise, von mir aus kann der noch warten bis ich hier ausziehe.🤣

    • @Marcel-um1cu
      @Marcel-um1cu 5 років тому +3

      Postillion?😉

    • @vnyggi621
      @vnyggi621 5 років тому

      @@lennartstockl5826 haha flug
      xD

  • @bootscrombled
    @bootscrombled 5 років тому +1463

    Germany: German engineering is the best in the world
    Brandenburg Airport: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @jackchang5548
      @jackchang5548 5 років тому +64

      Actually, Germany were infamous for over-engineering.

    • @sebs.3917
      @sebs.3917 5 років тому +12

      @@jackchang5548 lol. thats why china still copy all from us in a bad way

    • @sebs.3917
      @sebs.3917 5 років тому +25

      dont think east germany is germany. fraport and munich are great airports and they work. not west germany fail when the east dont know how to work

    • @HusseinDoha
      @HusseinDoha 5 років тому +5

      @@sebs.3917 China copy what?? China steals from USA. America and China are in their own league and war. Plenty has been said about Germany is good at building stuff. Yes, maybe in the past, but the world have catch on, today. China build magnificent infrastructure (but steals patent designs from USA). Brazil, India, Japan, Korea ..etc are there.

    • @David-eh9le
      @David-eh9le 5 років тому +1

      @@sebs.3917 Yes it is.

  • @nanakusuma5146
    @nanakusuma5146 4 роки тому +333

    Germany: after pending for years, we'll definitely open it on October 2020
    Corona Virus: well, hello there

    • @SoulDuckling126
      @SoulDuckling126 4 роки тому +9

      General corobi

    • @sk-sm9sh
      @sk-sm9sh 3 роки тому +10

      I think cvid lockdowns was very beneficial for them. With low passenger numbers and very few planes there is less things to mess up. They basically now have another half year or so to iron out their operational issues until world comes back to living

    • @intel_inside1457
      @intel_inside1457 3 роки тому +2

      Covid: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

    • @maxvandenberg955
      @maxvandenberg955 3 роки тому +1

      @@intel_inside1457 That problem has been resolved to some extend.

  • @nicorosbergf1fan783
    @nicorosbergf1fan783 4 роки тому +6697

    If you ever move to Germany, remember this: Jokes about the Deutsche Bahn and BER are always acceptable

    • @hannecatton2179
      @hannecatton2179 4 роки тому +94

      Danke !

    • @song-one1910
      @song-one1910 4 роки тому +583

      Your joke came a bit late. Like the S-Bahn.

    • @kotzpenner
      @kotzpenner 4 роки тому +34

      @Manuel Müller I always thought Frankfurt had it worse in this aspect lol ( I still loathe Berlin though lol)

    • @fluffigverbimmelt
      @fluffigverbimmelt 4 роки тому +56

      @@kotzpenner You're right, but jokes are more fun about the capital.
      People do try to defend Berlin, so the poking is more fun.
      For FFM that's just a given fact

    • @kotzpenner
      @kotzpenner 4 роки тому +4

      @@fluffigverbimmelt lol yeah that's a good perspective

  • @laura.st.
    @laura.st. 5 років тому +812

    This subject was never supposed to be addressed outside of Germany...

    • @sciencoking
      @sciencoking 5 років тому +124

      Yeah, we were kinda hoping nobody would ask about it..

    • @DesertCookie
      @DesertCookie 4 роки тому +19

      It finally caught up with us...

    • @TimeturnerJ
      @TimeturnerJ 4 роки тому +28

      Our dark secret is out in the open now. 😂

    • @3iknet327
      @3iknet327 4 роки тому +33

      Let's do it like China:
      Nothing ever happened in Berlin.

    • @JohnnyAngel8
      @JohnnyAngel8 4 роки тому +3

      @@TimeturnerJ oh, the shame of it all!

  • @paulf.1731
    @paulf.1731 4 роки тому +2395

    BER has been approved for use today, April 28 2020, no joke. Just at the right time with Europe on lockdown.

    • @NatetheNerdy
      @NatetheNerdy 4 роки тому +126

      This is the only time it can be approved, what with it keeping people out and all

    • @EduardoEscarez
      @EduardoEscarez 4 роки тому +184

      BER management: We finally did it! We can open the airport! Now is our time to receive all the airplanes that are in the .... oh, that thing with the virus...

    • @YourLocalMairaaboo
      @YourLocalMairaaboo 4 роки тому +61

      Proof that God needs to take comedy classes...

    • @aliabdallah102
      @aliabdallah102 4 роки тому +5

      Also my birthday!

    • @SHZ_Tristan19
      @SHZ_Tristan19 4 роки тому +10

      Oct 31st opening.

  • @cameroneridan4558
    @cameroneridan4558 Рік тому +39

    update now that the airport's been operating for 2.5 years:
    it's an alright airport. the outdated decor gives it a nice retro vibe. it's an upgrade over Schönefeld.

    • @iamantrometik
      @iamantrometik Рік тому +3

      That's nice

    • @Sam-uz4iy
      @Sam-uz4iy Рік тому +6

      youtubers successfully shaming authorities into action

  • @richardm1062
    @richardm1062 4 роки тому +501

    They could make it into an airport themed theme park. It would be just like a real theme park: standing in line all day, very short rides, overpriced food and gifts.

    • @amanbeniwal1576
      @amanbeniwal1576 4 роки тому +6

      or a Shopper Mall.
      That's also quite easy.

    • @Raiser991
      @Raiser991 4 роки тому +16

      There is a nuclear power plant theme park in germany. The "Wunderland Kalkar". Similar to the airport, the construction of the power plant had several problems before it was converted into a theme park.

    • @cecosim
      @cecosim 3 роки тому +7

      They could have tried, but the fire prevention system would still have not been up to the job. Alas, the airport is open now.

    • @j.s.7335
      @j.s.7335 3 роки тому +1

      As much as I love theme parks, I have to say this comment is severely underrated.

    • @3rdalbum
      @3rdalbum 2 роки тому

      They could have hired it out as a movie set

  • @petermuller7687
    @petermuller7687 5 років тому +881

    As a German living in Berlin, incredibly enough you've still left out a few things, one being that a newly built terminal building could not be cleared for people, because the weight and vibration of the ventilation system would risk destroying the roof..

    • @NN2484
      @NN2484 4 роки тому +50

      Does it ever end?

    • @Skorpien.
      @Skorpien. 4 роки тому +44

      @@NN2484 no

    • @edricklawrenceong7776
      @edricklawrenceong7776 4 роки тому +105

      @@Skorpien. By this point, I feel like it would actually be cheaper to just tear down Brandenburg Airport and just build a new one from scratch.

    • @Skorpien.
      @Skorpien. 4 роки тому +91

      @@edricklawrenceong7776 the funny part is that politicians are discussing this point xD

    • @JohnnyAngel8
      @JohnnyAngel8 4 роки тому +49

      @@edricklawrenceong7776 I wouldn't hire the same contractor if I was them.

  • @kirmityou
    @kirmityou 4 роки тому +920

    Oh, it doesn't end with the big screens: All the IT equipment was bought before 2010 and is now just as obsolete...
    There are empty trains driving to the BER train station, because without airflow, the tunnels would get moldy...
    All the walkways and parking lots have to be cleaned of weeds constantly...
    I could go on and on and on, you'll get insane thinking about the amount of incompetence needed for such a fuck up.
    So, to avoid this, the average citizen of Berlin just shrugs and says: "It's done when it's done"...

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 4 роки тому +79

      That's wild, I didn't even consider all that pointless activity that would have to be done just to keep the infrastructure from rotting to pieces. Actually makes it seem like it might be simpler to level it than try to fix the problems.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards 4 роки тому +38

      In California a common expression is: 'it is what it is' and in Japan they have shoganai or sha-gata-ga-nai (sorry Japanese people for my **** romangi spelling) which means 'it can't be helped'.
      It's nice to see some concepts are universal across cultures.
      It gives me hope that one day we can all be united in our shared apathetic nihilism and overcome all the things we care about the divide us.

    • @dparag14
      @dparag14 4 роки тому +12

      Ironically. All this done by the Germans. Guess they can only make cars.

    • @eriktransformer
      @eriktransformer 4 роки тому +49

      @@dparag14 that's wrong. I'm german and I can tell you if a private company wants something to be build, everything works perfect on time. It's always big government projects that fail. Politicians are stupid, corrupt! and incompetent

    • @Felix-kf1jz
      @Felix-kf1jz 4 роки тому +7

      @@dparag14 lol made in Germany means quality. Did anyone ever say, oh wow this washing machine is made in US, wow it must me so technically advanced.

  • @tobi-toaster480
    @tobi-toaster480 4 роки тому +140

    You forgot to tell us something about the train station beneath Terminal 1, this was ready to be opened on time, the only problem was that the escalators were to short, they ended like 6 meters before touching the platform😂
    Edit: The BER is now open (finally after 9 years and 1 day of delay😂) and the train station is regularly served by 2 S-Bahn (suburban railway) lines, 3 regional train lines, the FEX (airport Express) and one Intercity (long haul train).
    Fun fact:
    There were daily S-Bahn trains to the BER the since planned opening in 2011, the reason is, that the DB (Deutsche Bahn/German Railway Company) did not wanted the tunnel to get moldy😂
    Today, 9 years later, there is a S-Bahn every 10 minutes, so mold inside the tunnel is not a problem anymore😂

    • @andrewzheng4038
      @andrewzheng4038 2 роки тому +9

      Wait how the hell does that even happen
      Somebody fail trigonometry or something?

  • @MrMusicMan95
    @MrMusicMan95 5 років тому +1557

    Dude had me weak at 2:07
    "Bob, and the other builders, worked relatively fast..."

  • @Utonian21
    @Utonian21 5 років тому +544

    "What's your job?"
    "Oh, I stand around at the airport and lookout for any fires that might start"

    • @louisswanepoel1614
      @louisswanepoel1614 5 років тому +17

      Very comforting

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 5 років тому +22

      I've actually had jobs similar to that. The big challenge is staying awake.

    • @Alridx
      @Alridx 5 років тому +38

      Back in 2007 Chile decided to improve the capital's bus system, so the main company Sonda was supposed to install GPS to keep track on them so it would be more efficient among other changes. Contracts were poorly redacted and they figured out they were still getting paid WITHOUT installing GPS, so they didn't, and the system collapsed, so someone had the bright idea to use human GPS, a bunch of guys that kept track with a pen and paper on stops, so each time a bus got there they would tell the driver how far he was from the other buses. They did it and they had bright shirts that said human GPS ("GPS Humano", in spanish). Yes, it was ridiculous.

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 5 років тому +12

      @@louisswanepoel1614 I'm with ya, man, but it isn't quite like it sounds. The way it worked was you'd show up at a dispatch office. You'd (theoretically) be assigned to one particular welder, whom you would meet at on a particular deck/frame/compartment. You'd watch him do his thing, making sure he didn't set something on fire while working, and then after he left you had to stand watch afterward for a minimum of an hour. You could not leave before that hour was up, and the area the guy was welding had to be cool to the touch. Then you were supposed to go back to dispatch and be available for another assignment. Rinse, lather, repeat. Makes sense, right?
      Most of the assignments were for quick ten-minute or 20-minute work. Okay, fine. If the work in that compartment was completed, the welder was supposed sign off on your work chit, and then you had to remain there until two conditions had been met: The work area had to be literally cool to the touch, and you had to remain a minimum of an hour after the last spark.
      With me so far? Here's where the problems would arise: the welder would say something like, 'Stay here; I'll be back in 30 minutes." He wouldn't sign the chit, because he apparently had more to do.
      Well, now, guess what? You can't leave, and you'd never see the guy again. So, you'd have to sit there the remainder of your shift, at which time dispatch would send a relief.
      You'd think this would be easy to resolve, but you'd be wrong. To end the firewatch without the welder signing off on it required confirmation from the welder's supervisor that work was done in that compartment. Which often took a day or more to get, and sometimes as long as a week. And until someone signed that damned work chit, dispatch had to firewatch that space.
      We got paid for every minute we were either in the dispatch office or on the actual work site. It was good pay, too - $8 an hour (this in the mid-1980s). But there were entire weeks where I might actually only do about 2 to 6 hours of actual 'watch'.
      Can you say, 'government contract'? I knew you could.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 5 років тому +1

      Smoke-sniffing German Shepherds will do it for half the pay

  • @TheVengadordelfuturo
    @TheVengadordelfuturo 5 років тому +2971

    Sorry I love Tegel. It's the only Airport where you can arrive really late and still catch your plane.

    • @Dongonzales123
      @Dongonzales123 5 років тому +227

      Yes Tegel is a really well designed Airport. It was just designed in a completely different era, before security checks and with fewer flights. And it also has no rail connection for some reason

    • @raccoonbiceps9613
      @raccoonbiceps9613 5 років тому +80

      imo Tegel is the worst airport I have ever seen.

    • @MrOskarKim
      @MrOskarKim 5 років тому +77

      I totally agree with you! I once was super late because of a BVG strike, arrived 30 minutes after the check in was supposed to be finished yet there was a huge line of people still checking in)

    • @pinkyandbrain123
      @pinkyandbrain123 5 років тому +80

      Tegel was designed for approx. 5m passengers per year. It now stands at 20+m. So it is no wonder that TXL ranks so low. That being said: Tegel is even more shit due to the fact that thanks to the coming move to BER there are no investments anymore into Tegel since 2000

    • @No-xw7mo
      @No-xw7mo 5 років тому +1

      Martín Villegas You would still have time to stay possibly a couple years.

  • @crownfedora5355
    @crownfedora5355 4 роки тому +137

    Sometimes I forget that this airport belongs to a country which has a massive reputation for the best luxury cars in the entire world.

    • @macrotransaction2383
      @macrotransaction2383 3 роки тому +15

      Best luxury cars when they’re not broken. When they are they’ll be your worst luxury nightmare

    • @cefb8923
      @cefb8923 3 роки тому +7

      Not just luxury cars, everything. Germans are supposedly know for quality and engineering. I was genuinely shocked to see this as an American. Though realistically, these kind of enormous projects always seem to have set backs, same with aircraft development programs.

    • @herranton
      @herranton 3 роки тому +9

      Only an extremely uninformed person would think that there is anything quality about luxury german cars. They are a nightmare once they get a few years old. They're so overly complex and convoluted that parts are extremely expensive. When honda uses a simple $2 switch that won't fail for a million miles, the germans use a complex system of hydraulics utilizing high pressure pumps that break, seals that go bad, and actuators that fail, all costing thousands of dollars to do the same thing.
      And yes, I know porsche is the exception; but every mb, bmw or audi that is marketed as a luxury car is just a ticking time bomb.
      They're expensive garbage. Which is why a mb that cost $180k new goes for 90% off 8 years later. Lexus doesn't have that problem.

    • @somethingelse9228
      @somethingelse9228 3 роки тому

      @@herranton Maybe that's why the government is so change avers, they know what happens when you try to fix a non-existent problem

    • @herranton
      @herranton 3 роки тому +4

      @@somethingelse9228 But they're problem with luxury cars isn't nonexistent. They're garbage, and that is a problem.

  • @DerSpeggn
    @DerSpeggn 5 років тому +1394

    And the most comical thing is that nobody was held accountable for this desaster.

    • @kevinmoore4887
      @kevinmoore4887 5 років тому +125

      Politicians are Infamous for hiding from responsibility when it is a disaster.

    • @sevret313
      @sevret313 5 років тому +19

      And who really is responsible for this disaster?

    • @LilOleTinyMe
      @LilOleTinyMe 5 років тому +41

      Red the designer for the fire suppression system

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz 5 років тому +106

      Has to be more than just the fire suppression, given roofing and other issues. This has to be a 'shoddy contractor' problem; except the contractor was probably a company that no longer technically exists. That's how it usually goes.

    • @sevret313
      @sevret313 5 років тому +9

      @@SianaGearz
      Also you assume just one contractor, when there was probably plenty.

  • @deadpineapple
    @deadpineapple 5 років тому +2470

    Everyone: How much more years will it take for this airport to open?
    airport: *nein*

    • @El_Presidente_5337
      @El_Presidente_5337 5 років тому +27

      Wouldn't yes make more sense?

    • @thareqprimaharianto8725
      @thareqprimaharianto8725 5 років тому +77

      @@El_Presidente_5337 nein

    • @deadpineapple
      @deadpineapple 5 років тому +29

      @@El_Presidente_5337Yes, but no
      I intended it for the airport to say nine, but made a pun of it saying nein (which means no)

    • @El_Presidente_5337
      @El_Presidente_5337 5 років тому +1

      @ToteAnanas ok

    • @Leo-co3vp
      @Leo-co3vp 5 років тому +8

      @@El_Presidente_5337 It definitely would make more sense to say "Ja".

  • @aidanchen3611
    @aidanchen3611 5 років тому +1646

    German engineering at its best. Ask for the most efficient airport you get one with 0 Delays. Nailed it!

    • @justsomeone5314
      @justsomeone5314 5 років тому +124

      It's also very eco-friendly.

    • @bear8ful
      @bear8ful 5 років тому +41

      @@justsomeone5314 with *nein* emissions

    • @anselmschueler
      @anselmschueler 5 років тому +4

      ​@@bear8ful In German, "Nein" means both "Nine" *and* "No", so you're saying the airport had nine emissions...

    • @tuipaopao
      @tuipaopao 5 років тому +46

      @@anselmschueler Nope. The German "nine" is "neun" .

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 5 років тому +11

      No, no, NO. Zero delays would be impossible. So they reduced it to only one delay, forever.
      ...maybe they should have hired a copy editor for that specification.

  • @owenyin3316
    @owenyin3316 Рік тому +15

    “4000 doors were labeled incorrectly”
    how in the world did they not notice this

  • @nightavenger375
    @nightavenger375 5 років тому +1776

    I guess you could say the airport
    never took off

    • @JGrant60
      @JGrant60 5 років тому +42

      Give this man a Knighthood

    • @badmonkey2468
      @badmonkey2468 5 років тому +8

      Not bad

    • @l.c.8475
      @l.c.8475 5 років тому +40

      At least the people there are pretty grounded.

    • @nixonhoover2
      @nixonhoover2 5 років тому +4

      NightAvenger375 please see yourself out.

    • @laurentiusfritz3673
      @laurentiusfritz3673 5 років тому +2

      same can be said about most others: the airport buildings are still firmly on the ground.

  • @ErdnußRiegel6969
    @ErdnußRiegel6969 5 років тому +720

    This Airport is the biggest meme in Germany even our brothers in Austria know this meme

    • @burnerheinz
      @burnerheinz 5 років тому +20

      The Swiss a well the jokes went flying when we finnished the longest tunnel on the face of the earth

    • @mlgprussian7115
      @mlgprussian7115 5 років тому +1

      Tf are u doing here

    • @NiklasLuger6
      @NiklasLuger6 5 років тому +20

      As an Austrian, I can confirm this

    • @valentin5336
      @valentin5336 5 років тому

      Whaaaaoooooo

    • @DASPRiD
      @DASPRiD 4 роки тому +3

      Not sure, it might still open before S21 ;)

  • @Frank-uy2ck
    @Frank-uy2ck 5 років тому +400

    Most climate-friendly airport since 2012

    • @1BeGe
      @1BeGe 4 роки тому +2

      ...he says about the airport that had to replace a massive amount of electronics that had been running for 6 years in an empty building... :\

    • @blahblah8037
      @blahblah8037 4 роки тому +5

      1BeGe 6 years screens is better than any number of planes taking off and landing.
      So he says like a total moron

    • @1BeGe
      @1BeGe 4 роки тому +1

      ​@@blahblah8037 The same amount of flights happen in/out of the area regardless of whether they go to the old airport or the new one. Every other airport you can at least calculate the efficiency of energy used per the travel load it takes out of the total. To do that with this one would be dividing by 0. It literally has the worst efficiency possible.

    • @blahblah8037
      @blahblah8037 4 роки тому

      1BeGe and where, you total moron, was efficiency talked about?

    • @Krackerlack
      @Krackerlack 4 роки тому +1

      jeez guys it's a joke

  • @jubertcabrezos339
    @jubertcabrezos339 4 роки тому +54

    Filipinos: “NAIA is the worst airport in the world.”
    Germans, who were known for their industries:

  • @Laurenz10000
    @Laurenz10000 5 років тому +628

    Some even say that we will run out of jokes to tell about the Airport before it opens.

    • @kowaletzki
      @kowaletzki 5 років тому +4

      Don't worry, it'll give us plenty of new desasters to laugh about in the mean time.

    • @alithinker
      @alithinker 5 років тому +1

      Yes, legend has it..

    • @PowerSpirit50
      @PowerSpirit50 5 років тому

      Why hasn't my German teacher taught us about this?

    • @kowaletzki
      @kowaletzki 5 років тому +8

      @@PowerSpirit50 It's like the killing of native Americans or the 7:1 outcome when Germany played against Brazil. Americans don't talk about their genocide openly, Brazilians don't talk about the outcome openly and well... Germans don't talk about the BER openly.

  • @christianremboldt1557
    @christianremboldt1557 5 років тому +1341

    What will happen first?
    The Brexit? Opening of BER? or Exploration of aliens?

  • @enriquedavid1705
    @enriquedavid1705 5 років тому +6021

    This airport is a giant meme here in Germany.
    Edit: This comment got more attention than I expected.

    • @AuGrrr
      @AuGrrr 5 років тому +171

      *germany with hand up as if to refuse something*
      Having a functional airport
      *Germany pointing and smiling as if to accept something*
      Having a disaster of an airport and wasting billions of dollars on it.

    • @AuGrrr
      @AuGrrr 5 років тому +74

      @Águila701 that's like waiting for half life 3, it's not going to happen.

    • @jana31415
      @jana31415 5 років тому +34

      Ich will dich ja nicht stressen, aber der ist auch in österreich ein meme bald sogar in nigeria, oder so

    • @enriquedavid1705
      @enriquedavid1705 5 років тому +4

      @@jana31415 traurig aber wahr

    • @MSpencer1998
      @MSpencer1998 5 років тому +4

      I'm surprised you still have those! 😂

  • @joving3634
    @joving3634 3 роки тому +85

    People from 2020: BER was finally open in the Halloween day of 2020 when many countries are still on lockdowns and no tourists are flying because of coronavirus. The airport is still kind of useless years after the bankruptcy of Air Berlin.

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  • @vigneshgopinath1945
    @vigneshgopinath1945 5 років тому +418

    02:09 Bob: *Can we fix it?*
    Builders: We *DON'T* think so

  • @davidlamb1107
    @davidlamb1107 5 років тому +984

    4:06 he glosses right over "4000 doors were numbered incorrectly". *4000???* How is that even *possible?* What is that, like, *all the doors?*

    • @QemeH
      @QemeH 4 роки тому +177

      If you skip just one in the low digits, you have all following wrong. It's (by faaaaaaar) not the worst mistake made at that airport.

    • @DyeTheMoon
      @DyeTheMoon 4 роки тому +74

      @@QemeH True. The whole Airport was a Mistake.

    • @ElrotosEntertainment
      @ElrotosEntertainment 4 роки тому +15

      @@QemeH but one of the dumbest ones

    • @JosephVozzo
      @JosephVozzo 4 роки тому +43

      I mean seriously if there isn't a Door 17 somewhere how much does that *actually* matter?

    • @Quazarthegreat
      @Quazarthegreat 4 роки тому +13

      Lets say you forget that the number "3" exists, then every door after "2" is mislabled

  • @craggolly
    @craggolly 5 років тому +221

    Berlin thought proper construction companies were too expensive, so they tried to hire a couple hundred subcontractors who obviously had troubles communicating. Many of the required blueprints are now missing because the subcontractors who made them are now insolvent.

    • @mreatcoco
      @mreatcoco 5 років тому +23

      That was a stupid decision

    • @DanielGonzalezL
      @DanielGonzalezL 5 років тому +17

      Fuck. That's bad.

    • @nitschtr2708
      @nitschtr2708 5 років тому +1

      Look at the Köpenick power outage for confirmation!

    • @FriendlyMarmot
      @FriendlyMarmot 5 років тому

      😬

    • @werbekball8624
      @werbekball8624 5 років тому +2

      The German state is Forced by law always take the cheapest contract offer. So that's why. Pretty stupid imo

  • @MetalMachine131
    @MetalMachine131 3 роки тому +15

    You forgot to mention the bloody lights they installed at the entrance. They have no offswitch. They cost thousands of euros in electricity and shine in bright daylight.

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera 5 років тому +1030

    *Who will win?*
    -A $8.5 billion dollar airport in the capital of Germany that was to be a large hub for connecting passengers
    -Some lazy alarmy bois

    • @sswpp8908
      @sswpp8908 5 років тому +8

      Haha. I could see this being the next fresh new meme format. Great job! You are very funny. Way to go!

    • @pegeonpera
      @pegeonpera 5 років тому +51

      I know this meme has got old. But it is still used (unlike Brandenburg airport)

    • @eesmaaura4961
      @eesmaaura4961 5 років тому +2

      @@pegeonperaoof

    • @user-zt4bc2ut2c
      @user-zt4bc2ut2c 5 років тому +1

      I really hope Spencer doesn't have people tell him to kill himself because he said a meme was bad (and is right about it). That happened to me.

    • @ccllvn
      @ccllvn 5 років тому +1

      god, who actually likes this type of shit comment? fuck off

  • @ChristianLamine
    @ChristianLamine 5 років тому +709

    Actually no joke: there are (partly very prominent) voices in Germany, that believe it would be cheaper to completely tear down this never-used airport and rebuild a new one than to actually fix the problems with the existing one. One of them is the head of the german state airline Lufthansa.

    • @6yjjk
      @6yjjk 5 років тому +43

      Given that it'll be at capacity the day it opens (if it opens), I'm astonished that work hasn't begun already on a bigger terminal on the western side of the apron. The railway tunnel runs under there, highway access is doable. Cut-paste an existing design (LHR T5?), get the people who built the original to build the new one, and it'll be open well before the existing fustercluck is sorted out.

    • @the.abhiram.r
      @the.abhiram.r 5 років тому +9

      the airport seems horribly mismanaged, if i was one of those voices, i would just buy the airport from them and fix the damn problem

    • @patrickstard
      @patrickstard 5 років тому

      Christian Lamine well, the new one can just be made out of some plastic or something. Should be fine.

    • @Cedrinate
      @Cedrinate 4 роки тому +1

      Basically there are over 300 issues in the construction..

    • @Cedrinate
      @Cedrinate 4 роки тому +7

      @joseaca Its bc the govt hire the cheapest companies who are not qualified enough for such a build combined with bad management as you always get with govt funded projects and there u have a billion euro grave. Germany is falling apart and our politicians.. well just rather curse at google than care about the infrastructure

  • @juliusreiner5733
    @juliusreiner5733 3 роки тому +88

    Who’s here on October 31, 2020, the day the airport actually opened?!

    • @airsideadrian6335
      @airsideadrian6335 3 роки тому +2

      I was *there* on October 31st, 2020 and let me tell you, I would still rather have Tegel, than BER.

    • @cooltwittertag
      @cooltwittertag 3 роки тому +2

      @@airsideadrian6335 Nah, I was there as well and Tegel was hell. Nostalgic, but still hell. BER is actually a very nice looking airport and is very well structured as well.

  • @mgoeppl
    @mgoeppl 5 років тому +1252

    I heard the planning team would like to help rebuilding Notre Dame...

    • @FritzFurtz
      @FritzFurtz 5 років тому +12

      onions are tasty
      edit: nvm it wasn't an onion article, it was a postillion article.

    • @user-zt4bc2ut2c
      @user-zt4bc2ut2c 5 років тому +5

      @@FritzFurtz I prefer garlic, but I really smell an onion here. I guess Zirael doesn't have as good of onion senses as us

    • @kristemmerman921
      @kristemmerman921 5 років тому

      hehehe

    • @bigbadcivic2
      @bigbadcivic2 5 років тому

      a bit weird and tbh quite offensive to start over the Notre Dame. If your guy didnt lost that time ago we wouldnt have these problems now.

    • @GameCyborgCh
      @GameCyborgCh 5 років тому +1

      i thought it was the team that build the cologne cathedral

  • @pelegsap
    @pelegsap 5 років тому +636

    Berlin is the antithesis for almost all stereotypes about Germans and Germany.

    • @EineSchraube
      @EineSchraube 5 років тому +104

      Oh, Berlin. What is Berlin? Berlin, as a city, brings nothing but shame to Germany on the international stage. When comparing Berlin with other European capitals such as London, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam, any decent human’s face must blush in humiliation. Even small countries like Austria, Belgium or Switzerland have Vienna, Brussels and Zurich: presentable cities, complete with high standards of living. Germany gets punished with Berlin, capital of losers. In all the republic, Berlin is home to the largest number of arseholes by far. Deutsche Bahn, Bundestag, Air Berlin and Axel Springer are but a few examples of all the incompetent scum being kept here. Glorious times have long since passed, the city is face down in the dirt. Berliners are lazy sods to their very core. Traits that would, in any civilised culture, pass for nothing but laziness, rudeness, incompetence, dissocial personality disorder or idiocy, are taken by the Berliner and declared a way of life. That is why the Berliner harbours intense feelings of hatred for anyone who’s better than him in any way. Especially the all-around superior Southern Germany are a thorn in his side. He envies their success, and Munich makes the top on his list of hatred. That city is - and has! - everything that Berlin wants to be and have. Berliners take no interest in the fact that it is Munich that finances their dissolute lifestyle, in fact, they secretly believe that they have earned it. So instead of freeing themselves from their envious and resentful lethargy, instead of rolling up their sleeves and improve their city, they revel in their antisocial freeloading and praise their so-called global city. Culturally, Berliners are set up rather weakly, great works lie far back in history. Moreover, mispronouncing “g” as “j” is considered a great cultural feat. Advanced students have mastered ending each and every sentence with a “wa?”. The city’s culinary performance is second-rate. Here, a sausage made from glued-together, meaty odds and ends adorned with ketchup and curry powder is sold as a culinary masterpiece. Hardly any reasonable person would consider a bratwurst with ketchup a recipe, let alone the holy grail of culinary arts. Yet, in their magnanimity, the rest of the republic lets the Berliner keep his delusion, not wanting to amplify his inferiority complex. Economically, Berlin is an utter disaster, even the late GDR stood on more solid ground. The local economy is based around alternative blogs, something-something-media and, if universities are to be believed, gender studies. Disregarding his own bankruptcy, the Berliner treats himself to prestigious projects like the city palace and the airport - which, considering its inoperative nature, is likely an art installation. Moreover, the city houses all popular parties’ headquarters, who refrain from using “traitors” in their official names (Probably for marketing reasons). For the longest time, this “town’s” “mayor”, the jolly Wowibear, butchered anything he found left in a presentable state. Long story short: Berlin is Germany’s tiled coffee table. It is to Germany what Greece is to the European Union, and if it had open sewerage, it would be Germanys Romania. Berlin is a blemish, the abscess on the arse of the nation. Berlin is the uninvited party guest, who didn’t even bring any booze and wouldn’t even understand he’s not welcome if he had is teeth beaten out and got thrown down the stairs. Berlin is the Detroit of Germany and should be sold to Poland for 200 Złoty.

    • @dreisaum9916
      @dreisaum9916 5 років тому

      Not so much with the context.

    • @leo2panzer643
      @leo2panzer643 5 років тому +5

      @@EineSchraubeBerlin has no open sewerage jet

    • @west1919
      @west1919 5 років тому +23

      @@EineSchraube Lol mate, I had to stop reading at the munich part. As a Berliner I have to say the cityI care the least about in Germany is Munich. And I don't mean that in a bad way, I literally just don't give a shit because I've never heard or seen anything interesting about the city.
      Also: I know a ton of highly successful and hard working people here, who also happen to be decent humans (i.e. don't need to pathetically shit on other people online).
      Anyway, gr8 b8 m8, would r8 8/8

    • @raphaelforkel7759
      @raphaelforkel7759 5 років тому +18

      @@west1919 So much butthurt from just a single Berliner! How can you not know about achberlin.txt?

  • @fildemen6626
    @fildemen6626 5 років тому +1531

    2:08 "Bob and the other builders"

    • @MangoMotors
      @MangoMotors 5 років тому +36

      Sounds like it would be a great alt rock band name

    • @sriwidiani5068
      @sriwidiani5068 5 років тому +3

      DECEASED 😂

    • @AP-yx1mm
      @AP-yx1mm 5 років тому +26

      They would actually have it done in time, because they would talk to the machines and they would told them to pay attention and stuff...

    • @BTsM.BnussTYPC351
      @BTsM.BnussTYPC351 5 років тому +9

      Bob the Builder!!!

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 5 років тому +37

      "Can we fix it?!"
      "NO WE CAN'T!"

  • @CryoCrow
    @CryoCrow 2 роки тому +19

    Update on the airport. It officially opened on 31 Oct 2020 and only just became fully operational with terminal 2 being opened on 24 March 2022 because Covid 19 delayed its opening.

  • @jackreacher6240
    @jackreacher6240 5 років тому +285

    To be fair, TESLA got a "test a tesla-store" right next to the airport.
    The unused, empty Highway around is the perfect testing range !

    • @alecman95
      @alecman95 4 роки тому +18

      We also have our car meetups there. It’s perfect

  • @EnkidenkiTV
    @EnkidenkiTV 5 років тому +297

    I'm from Germany and here the Berlin Airport is something like a running gag. When something takes forever you say: " The Berlin Airport will be build before this is finished" or something like that :)
    I really think Germany is the champion in building large things but somehow making the whole construction process a disaster (just look at the Elbphilharmonie, Stuttgart 21, etc.)

    • @amoghsinha4062
      @amoghsinha4062 5 років тому +26

      I guess the builders wanted to break the stereotype of Germans being sophisticated and good in construction 😂

    • @StAngerNo1
      @StAngerNo1 5 років тому +14

      We should hire the chinese for such things. The airport would now already have its 10 years anniversary.

    • @sisyphusvasilias3943
      @sisyphusvasilias3943 5 років тому +8

      I don't believe it. Im certain this is actually the worlds most uber efficient tax scam

    • @kyotra
      @kyotra 5 років тому +5

      @@amoghsinha4062 More like perpetuating the stereotype that they over-engineer everything.

    • @MrR233
      @MrR233 5 років тому +9

      S21 doesn't count. It's actually an insanely complicated project. And they have made good progress. Giant tunneling projects take a lot of time. Crossrail, Gotthard Tunnel etc.

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews 5 років тому +166

    Dude, Fire Spotter? Finally a career path that I'm qualified for...

    • @nickmonks9563
      @nickmonks9563 5 років тому +4

      We actually hire them in the states for events that require the fire system to be turned off (for instance, when using fog machines to create dramatic effect.)

    • @babadusseldorf8480
      @babadusseldorf8480 5 років тому +1

      Oh same here in Germany, I work at an event place and once there was a magician which used fireworks stuff like that for the show so they turned the system off and hired fire spotters for this event.

    • @TheMystikal82
      @TheMystikal82 5 років тому +1

      I had a fire spotter on one project of mine. I found him checking his Facebook, while there was a fire 4 meters away from him.

    • @ozone9473
      @ozone9473 4 роки тому

      I would make sure that I'm still needed with an occasional small fire in a toilet

  • @sovietunionsmostnotoriousk5031
    @sovietunionsmostnotoriousk5031 3 роки тому +144

    Who’s here after Berlin Brandenburg officially opened?

  • @TheTexas1994
    @TheTexas1994 4 роки тому +1546

    Can we all just take a moment to realize that Aleppo Airport has 4.1 stars on Google Review?

    • @thomasraahauge5231
      @thomasraahauge5231 4 роки тому +73

      Not giving it a five star review is a capital offense?

    • @colinpovey2904
      @colinpovey2904 4 роки тому +62

      @@thomasraahauge5231 No one has been there is years to rate it?

    • @totallyserena3541
      @totallyserena3541 3 роки тому +127

      "Great Airport but unwelcoming staff, they were shooting at me."

    • @hbdragon88
      @hbdragon88 3 роки тому +24

      I don't trust most user ratings, but Google is especially sketchy. it is definitely skewed more towards negative than positive and i don't know if they try to manage or audit them at all. For Aleppo, I would bet that most of the reviews are from before 2012, or that there haven't been too many reviews since the Battle of Aleppo.

    • @ezeuzohakansson6149
      @ezeuzohakansson6149 3 роки тому +2

      Check the comments

  • @sagichdirdochnicht4653
    @sagichdirdochnicht4653 5 років тому +108

    Experts have even stated (now a couple of years ago actually), that rebuilding this whole mess would be cheaper then just continue fixing it.
    Among us germans, Berlin Brandenburg is literally quite a laugh, altough a depressing one, seing all the Tax money got thrown out of the window.
    "Hell is going to freeze, before I will date you" is replaced with "The Berlin Ariport will be opened, before I will date you".
    No, it really got a running joke. Now young adults even ask themselfes if they live long enough to see the opening of the Airport.
    And yes, this airport is quite ashaming for us. Oh well, at least they look after securety and shit.

    • @TheKartoffel101
      @TheKartoffel101 5 років тому +1

      same as Die Bahn and their S21 Project

  • @physics-guy3164
    @physics-guy3164 5 років тому +374

    We here in Germany joke that humans will set foot on Mars earlier than the Berlin Airport

    • @filip3148
      @filip3148 5 років тому +15

      According to NASA 2033, so you may be right.

    • @sisyphusvasilias3943
      @sisyphusvasilias3943 5 років тому +1

      But but but?........How?
      y' yr' YOUR GeRMaN!!!

    • @physics-guy3164
      @physics-guy3164 5 років тому +22

      @@sisyphusvasilias3943 Even our trains are not on time anymore. They were once, but the rest of the world seemed to dislike

    • @sisyphusvasilias3943
      @sisyphusvasilias3943 5 років тому +1

      @@physics-guy3164 weird? I thought Time was a product of German trains schedules.

    • @physics-guy3164
      @physics-guy3164 5 років тому +10

      @@sisyphusvasilias3943 That's why Einstein invented time dilation

  • @3pikness159
    @3pikness159 2 роки тому +9

    it’s fun coming back to this video 3 years later and seeing that it did in fact make its october 2020 opening date

  • @TooSickToDressVictorian
    @TooSickToDressVictorian 5 років тому +590

    We use the BER as a way to say never.
    „I‘ll date you when the BER is open“.

    • @ErdnußRiegel6969
      @ErdnußRiegel6969 5 років тому +11

      No joke removing the airport and build it again is cheaper lel

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 5 років тому +5

      "When the _beer_ is opened? Bartender!"

    • @bigboineptune9567
      @bigboineptune9567 5 років тому +16

      But if it actually gets opened you're screwed

    • @Lukaaaaaaaaa
      @Lukaaaaaaaaa 5 років тому +1

      Its going to open 2020

    • @HanSophey
      @HanSophey 5 років тому +7

      @@Lukaaaaaaaaa Is it though?

  • @DerFilc
    @DerFilc 5 років тому +374

    this is a running joke in germany but even the running joke got old now

    • @erikvale3194
      @erikvale3194 5 років тому +51

      So old it actually took off and landed.

    • @ericw.1620
      @ericw.1620 5 років тому +4

      Is it as old as this airport tho

    • @halitosis75
      @halitosis75 5 років тому

      🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

    • @raptormaster666
      @raptormaster666 5 років тому +1

      It's down to a walking joke.

    • @halitosis75
      @halitosis75 5 років тому +3

      @@raptormaster666
      I've heard they will turn it into an aldi supermarket
      Bom bom

  • @-4subscriberswithahammerad521
    @-4subscriberswithahammerad521 5 років тому +368

    Not even going to make a joke here, that airport is a legend

    • @Krokoklemmee
      @Krokoklemmee 5 років тому +27

      No need to make jokes, the BER is already enough of a joke in itself

    • @Delta-wv3uo
      @Delta-wv3uo 5 років тому +2

      27?

    • @chromebot9618
      @chromebot9618 5 років тому +1

      You have to get a 27

    • @chromebot9618
      @chromebot9618 5 років тому +1

      Sorry that meme is very obscure

    • @AlbertoTamez
      @AlbertoTamez 5 років тому

      @@chromebot9618 this airport always kicks my ass

  • @lorddrayvon1426
    @lorddrayvon1426 Рік тому +7

    Update; it opened on October 31st 2020. Not the best time to open an airport but hey, I'm not the one who took nine years to fix some wiring.

  • @drainfart69
    @drainfart69 4 роки тому +1551

    Opening delayed to October 2020. 2020 gets here: *it's corona time*

    • @projectpitchfork860
      @projectpitchfork860 4 роки тому +10

      And now the BER is exppected zo open earlier.

    • @jort93z
      @jort93z 4 роки тому +8

      They still plan to open it in october.
      But they insist tegel stays open until BER is opened, just in case.
      Do i believe they'll make it? Maybe.

    • @ReloadedMichiPrivat
      @ReloadedMichiPrivat 4 роки тому +4

      @@jort93z BER is finished and ready for opening
      But it just cant right now because of Corona

    • @DerEchteBabo
      @DerEchteBabo 4 роки тому +7

      It will open 99% in October, TXL will close on November 9.

    • @GabbieTheFox
      @GabbieTheFox 4 роки тому +4

      They've finally fixed the fire alarms and suppression system?

  • @tomsmith5584
    @tomsmith5584 4 роки тому +1104

    Denver International Airport: We are the worst built airport ever.
    Brandenburg Airport: Halt mein Bier und schau dir das an.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy 4 роки тому +20

      Haha, see I loved Denver airport when I was there! Its design is absolutely stunning. Seemed pretty efficient to me, but I was only there on a layover of a few hours.

    • @koreajong
      @koreajong 4 роки тому +39

      what do you have against DEN? apart from the conspiracy theories and current construction, i’ve always considered it as one of the best airports in the US

    • @tomsmith5584
      @tomsmith5584 4 роки тому +32

      @@koreajong I lived there when it was built. While it is a nice airport, it opened a year late for nearly triple the cost because of a baggage system that had a habit of destroying luggage.

    • @RideNightshift
      @RideNightshift 4 роки тому +36

      If you think Denver is bad, you really haven't been flying.

    • @someguy2594
      @someguy2594 4 роки тому +23

      Tom S. DIA is actually one of the best, better than LAX and that dumpster fire in Paris (forgot the name)

  • @twolate2l00k
    @twolate2l00k 5 років тому +1167

    You forgot to say the funniest thing, even if it opens today it will already be too small

    • @maarcoo97
      @maarcoo97 5 років тому +4

      hahaha

    • @D_B_Cooper
      @D_B_Cooper 5 років тому +44

      Yes, they are keeping tegel open anyway

    • @Ax9005
      @Ax9005 5 років тому +31

      Not really, since it was built to be a hub and no airline is based in berlin, it will probably be heavily under-utilised.

    • @Silberschleier
      @Silberschleier 5 років тому +57

      It would have been too small, if Air Berlin would still exist...so at least this problem should be "solved"

    • @FalconX88
      @FalconX88 5 років тому

      It won't since it's not a hub.

  • @HalfBoxStudios
    @HalfBoxStudios 2 роки тому +10

    I just flew out of Berlin Brandenburg last week and had no idea it had this much of a history... Gotta say it was one of the best airports I've been to though.

  • @6yjjk
    @6yjjk 5 років тому +438

    Some of the electrical cables were too small. The correct;y-sized replacements wouldn't fit in the walls... so they're in the water pipes.
    The airport is having to pay the train company to run empty trains through the tunnels because the stale air will do bad things otherwise.
    The corruption involved is staggering.
    And the guy who blew the whistle on the corruption had his coffee poisoned.
    Just... wow.

    • @astronemir
      @astronemir 5 років тому +18

      Link about the coffee poisoning?

    • @6yjjk
      @6yjjk 5 років тому +41

      @@astronemir www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36185194

    • @iliatchaplinski
      @iliatchaplinski 5 років тому +18

      @@6yjjk wow, that's horrific.

    • @Anastas1786
      @Anastas1786 5 років тому +4

      ... Where exactly is the _water_ going to go then?
      Or is this just an example of that famous "German efficiency" I've heard so much about?

    • @piau1798
      @piau1798 5 років тому +2

      Anastas1786 I've read about the cables just stuffed into the air wells, what isn't more save but easier to imagine than it going through water pipes.

  • @reinerw.1158
    @reinerw.1158 5 років тому +283

    In 2014 i was joking about it being cheaper to just demolish it completely and built a better designed airport

    • @Bokurano99
      @Bokurano99 5 років тому +35

      They should have done that.

    • @xander1052
      @xander1052 5 років тому +7

      When you realise that LHR is better designed and it can barely take the strain with 2 runways and no running during the night.
      also tons of the runways that used to exist are now taxiways because LHR.

    • @davidlp3019
      @davidlp3019 5 років тому +1

      Honestly if I got into power I'd do this. I'd demolish this waste of money and build a massive one. It will be cheaper ones the long run as this is already too small apparently

    • @OneEyeShadow
      @OneEyeShadow 5 років тому +1

      Oh how naive we all were

    • @taynaforlife7464
      @taynaforlife7464 5 років тому +1

      Reiner W. Why? This is a perfect location to hide drugs, people and many other things we don‘t want to see. Hahahh

  • @lnnrt0161
    @lnnrt0161 5 років тому +645

    You can now make a guided tour around the location
    I kid you not ticket prices are around 30€

    • @kleim3139
      @kleim3139 5 років тому +95

      they´re collecting money to fix everything :P

    • @andymadden8183
      @andymadden8183 5 років тому +22

      "Here's the airport you can't use yet because it might kill you.".

    • @afterbjoerner1119
      @afterbjoerner1119 5 років тому +6

      I du da Tour with a Friend that was in 6th grade Noe im in 12 grade and it isnt Open yet.xd

  • @TheSecondVersion
    @TheSecondVersion 4 роки тому +8

    3:40 - "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution."
    If they could't even manage to install a fire system in an EMPTY airport, how the hell will they do it once the airport is operational and hundreds of people are using the building each day?

  • @LucaRioluSmile
    @LucaRioluSmile 5 років тому +276

    A radio station suggested a new addition to German Grammar: Futur 3. It would be used for things that won't be finished even in the future.
    (German has 2 future tenses: Futur 1&2. 1 is used for stuff that will happen, and 2 for stuff that will be finished in the future)

    • @jan-lukas
      @jan-lukas 4 роки тому +2

      In English there is Future Perfect, right?

    • @unplayednamer0165
      @unplayednamer0165 4 роки тому +9

      @@jan-lukas idk, but word by word it would be like that,
      Futur 1: I will have something.
      Futur 2: I will have had something.

    • @JackBlackNinja
      @JackBlackNinja 4 роки тому +5

      @@jan-lukas Yessir. We got mostly the same grammar expect English has mostly exceptions where High German has no exceptions because it was meant to be calculated. English is just German that said fuck it to the rules and then stole a bunch of French where the Normans thought French was better

    • @christianosminroden7878
      @christianosminroden7878 4 роки тому +2

      JackBlackNinja As a German, one thing I really like about that „oh fuck it“ attitude in English is that, whenever it’s convenient, just noun a verb and vice versa. In German, you almost need a linguistic degree in to generate such a derivation correctly. Most people fail bigly at this.

    • @iankemp1131
      @iankemp1131 2 роки тому

      @@christianosminroden7878 Nicely put! English is a pretty lazy language really and a mongrel. We don't bother with conjugating verbs or declensions. Many people say that makes English easier to learn as a second language. But the flip side is it's harder to pronounce because it's non-phonetic. My wife did a year at a German university and went to the French language courses there. She found it was easier for her than for the Germans because a lot of the French vocabulary was recognisable from its equivalent in English. We often have 2 similar words for the same thing, one German derived and one French derived, e.g. begin and commence.

  • @christianjb2002
    @christianjb2002 4 роки тому +683

    Give it some credit, it didn't let in any cases of the coronavirus.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 4 роки тому +38

      Can't say that for sure, not one traveller at this airport got tested.

    • @AzureDragon100
      @AzureDragon100 4 роки тому +51

      A worker got tested positive for the 'rona in March and they had to halt construction again. So even without planes coming in, the airport still managed to get infected.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 роки тому +1

      Hi and Hello.
      I gather people for a good cause:
      I wanna provide people with Links leading to bad or toxic people.
      Mobber, Racists, Sexists, Bullies, more. I got the Links and i
      need help with reporting them.
      Can anyone here help?
      I mean, complaining about the State of the world is nice
      and dandy, but... how about acting? Doing something?
      I know this was random and also overly summarized, but
      think about it and consider. You can make a difference.
      Means: I gathered and confirmed many Links. And made a Wiki to
      provide the Public with them. Wanna help, too?!

    • @MassimoAngotzi
      @MassimoAngotzi 3 роки тому

      Nope. I like racism.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 роки тому +1

      @@MassimoAngotzi What a genius comment.
      Nothing better to say?

  • @galador8089
    @galador8089 5 років тому +456

    BERLIN AIRPORT is the biggest German meme of all time

    • @frisianmouve
      @frisianmouve 5 років тому +43

      Isn't that the Bielefeld conspiracy though?

    • @LinksSpaceProgram
      @LinksSpaceProgram 5 років тому +20

      Elbphilharmonie aber die ist wenigstens fertig gworden

    • @eliczyk
      @eliczyk 5 років тому +8

      @@frisianmouve What is Bielefeld?

    • @frisianmouve
      @frisianmouve 5 років тому +28

      ​@@eliczyk Good question since Bielefeld doesn't exist

    • @galador8089
      @galador8089 5 років тому +12

      @E-BoZz not to worry, it doesnt exist

  • @lgoese
    @lgoese 2 роки тому +4

    The BER even has an own video game where you have to build the airport. The ting is, you will never get far enough to actually finish the airport.
    It’s on Steam

  • @richardpilz5186
    @richardpilz5186 4 роки тому +137

    Why is it even funnier to hear the the failure of the BER in english than to hear it in my mayor language German itself.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 4 роки тому +9

      I hate to break it to you, but German isn't exactly famous for being the language of humour and comedy.

    • @richardpilz5186
      @richardpilz5186 4 роки тому +15

      @@johnladuke6475 That was not what I sad, but in Germany is it quit a ridicules and popular theme. I dont know where you live but in Germany satire is quit popular and there you dont want to say something with some kind of humorous language.

    • @krismine99
      @krismine99 4 роки тому +1

      @@richardpilz5186 while I don't agree with his representation of the German language, I think he's saying that when people speak German in America people view it as a serious matter and humorous.

  • @ciaran1278
    @ciaran1278 4 роки тому +426

    Another issue was that they've build in lights
    -but forgot to build in a way to turn those lights off.

    • @stefm.w.3640
      @stefm.w.3640 4 роки тому +9

      Huh? 😅

    • @tommybazar
      @tommybazar 4 роки тому +27

      To be fair, airports operate 24/7 anyways...

    • @HesToasted
      @HesToasted 4 роки тому +9

      tombazar it’s been 10 years though

    • @maxim6088
      @maxim6088 4 роки тому +2

      at the very least, the amount of idiocy needed for that is impressive

  • @xirfan
    @xirfan 5 років тому +752

    They can just keep using it to film Marvel films.

    • @UnitedAirlines4Life
      @UnitedAirlines4Life 5 років тому +68

      xirfan yeah just turn it into the de facto tv/movie airport.

    • @senecanero3874
      @senecanero3874 5 років тому +51

      the fight in civil war wasn't there though, it was in the very much functional airport of "Frankfurt an der Oder" (yes, this is the name of a city and no it is not the financial hub, that is "Frankfurt am Main")

    • @evanbelcher
      @evanbelcher 5 років тому +18

      This is actually a genuinely good idea...

    • @p_Lama_q
      @p_Lama_q 5 років тому +18

      It was filmed on the Leipzig Airport

    • @fatdoi003
      @fatdoi003 5 років тому +13

      this airport can be home base for Ocenaic, Windsor & Trans American airlines......

  • @XxSinnlosxxb
    @XxSinnlosxxb 3 роки тому +9

    For anybody interested BER opened on October 31st 2020, and already needed external funding inorder to operate, because the nobody is flying during a pandemic.... shops/restaurants on the airport also opened delayed by 8 years only to close down again 3days later because of a lockdown.... this Building is cursed:D

  • @deeznutz3712
    @deeznutz3712 4 роки тому +678

    China: Build hospital for 10 days.
    Germany: Airport remain unfinished for almost 15 years.

    • @sevinceur1766
      @sevinceur1766 4 роки тому +34

      I don’t think it would be worth it to build an hospital for only 10 days.

    • @usebrain514
      @usebrain514 4 роки тому +4

      @@sevinceur1766 Yeah. Lets make it take 15 years.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 4 роки тому +11

      @George Lincoln China is communist though.

    • @Athalwolf13
      @Athalwolf13 4 роки тому +34

      @@11Survivor Facism and communism aren't that different ...both value the collective more than the invidual (if for different reasons ( communism = class, facism = national state and often ethnicity))

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 4 роки тому +6

      @@Athalwolf13 I won't deny that, but still, vocabulary.

  • @basicnpcc
    @basicnpcc 5 років тому +223

    Worst part is, the planning team is prob getting paid through the roof for this mess lol.

    • @WAJK2030
      @WAJK2030 5 років тому +13

      NPC the planning team has changed many times. It’s like a hot potatoe, nobody wants to realy catch... Speaking as a German Construction Engineer and Architect...

    • @100nni
      @100nni 5 років тому +11

      This was actually one of the first mistakes: The guy managing it quit because he saw that things were going to shits and politicians were too cheap to hire someone qualified for the job so they just promoted his assistant

    • @theirDevil
      @theirDevil 5 років тому +14

      @@100nni Underpay professionals, overpaid fools.

    • @Malisti04
      @Malisti04 5 років тому

      @@WAJK2030 I never expected that from the Germans. Not when it comes to engineering. $8.5 bln waste.

  • @jort93z
    @jort93z 5 років тому +409

    Its a running gag around here by now. It'd have been cheaper to destroy the whole thing and start over probably.
    It'll be done this century, well unless it won't be, in that case it'll be done this millenia.

    • @natalie6811
      @natalie6811 5 років тому +2

      What if that’s not enough time?

    • @TPixelAdventures
      @TPixelAdventures 5 років тому +26

      In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war...and unfinished German airports.

    • @calanon534
      @calanon534 5 років тому +4

      Don't worry, I'm sure Captain Kirk will enjoy the opening ceremonies of the airport, right before he gets on the Enterprise-B.

    • @juliuss2056
      @juliuss2056 5 років тому +5

      In 2014 it would have been cheaper to demolish the whole airport and start over, but the planning team decided it would be too much of a PR disaster to have it demolished at that stage..

    • @jamesedwardrichardson2131
      @jamesedwardrichardson2131 5 років тому

      Good, I just want Tegel to stay open!

  • @xltronic1
    @xltronic1 3 роки тому +6

    The airport is FINALLY open!!!

  • @EthanPricco
    @EthanPricco 5 років тому +488

    That moment when you finish your Minecraft Airport before the German government can finish their real one.

    • @SupersuMC
      @SupersuMC 4 роки тому +25

      And it doesn't receive any flights either because you can't get those slime blocks to work right.

    • @DerVersteherPlus
      @DerVersteherPlus 4 роки тому +6

      Not German Government, it is the Berlin and Brandenburg government. All other Airports outside of Berlin a working mostly fine.

    • @usdepartmentofthetreasury489
      @usdepartmentofthetreasury489 9 місяців тому

      @@DerVersteherPlusprobably cause they were built different (privately most likely) right? Correct me if I’m wrong

  • @Killerean
    @Killerean 4 роки тому +629

    People: "German engineering is the best in the world!"
    Me: "Clearly you have never had to repair something designed by Germans."

    • @tookitogo
      @tookitogo 4 роки тому +85

      'People: "German engineering is the best in the world!"'
      BER has singlehandedly taken care of that pesky reputation. German engineers can now relax and let their hair down, in the knowledge that the world no longer expects anything from them! :P

    • @Senekha86
      @Senekha86 4 роки тому +88

      @@tookitogo The problem arent the engineers. The main problem was the planning of 3(!) incompetent construction managers who where politicans and had literally no clue what they are doing and never talked to each other. They just wanted the fame for building that thing. And that is still the problem: no one is guilty for that - because its like everyone is. So its not just because of the small things like wrong labelled doors. Its because the whole thing is a f*cking mess.

    • @tookitogo
      @tookitogo 4 роки тому +12

      Lars St. That’s all true, but the engineers were also to blame, in particular for the fire suppression system, where it emerged that the engineer who designed it wasn’t actually trained as an engineer at all! 🤦‍♂️

    • @Senekha86
      @Senekha86 4 роки тому +26

      @@tookitogo Thats actually not true and an urban legend. There are interviews out there with the lead engineer of the fire suppressor, proving this statement wrong.
      The problem here was, that the design was for a smaller building. But again, because the managers didnt spoke to each other, no one knows that they are going to build it larger. And because of this there are a couple of problems with that system, not just one. Its a complete mess.

    • @tookitogo
      @tookitogo 4 роки тому +6

      Lars St. Urban legends aren’t typically published in real newspapers with quotes by the accused: www.morgenpost.de/flughafen-BER/article129408915/Ex-BER-Planer-di-Mauro-als-falscher-Ingenieur-entlarvt.html

  • @Digephil
    @Digephil 4 роки тому +448

    Good News, Everyone! As of April 28, 2020 the airport has received approval to open! Nothing can stop it opening now!!! oh wait..

    • @IcicleFurry
      @IcicleFurry 4 роки тому +11

      XD

    • @a.t.1011
      @a.t.1011 3 роки тому +12

      It opened today still!

    • @Ro_Gaming
      @Ro_Gaming 3 роки тому +7

      Guys I'm a time traveller and they found the cure!

    • @Digephil
      @Digephil 3 роки тому +4

      @@Ro_Gaming I'm a time traveler from 2004, was the cure more cowbell?

    • @Ro_Gaming
      @Ro_Gaming 3 роки тому +5

      @@Digephil have no idea where warped to, but Queen Elizabeth still alive

  • @cemiquents
    @cemiquents 3 роки тому +7

    i remember in 2012 flying into Tegel like every year, and my mom telling me "say goodbye to tegel, this will be the last time we're here"
    yeah that didn't age well
    at least it is now finally open since 2020

  • @mafiousbj
    @mafiousbj 5 років тому +1043

    I was about to make fun of the bad design but i need to applaud the Germans. In any other country those inspectors would have accepted a bribe and the dangerously unsafe airport would have been inaugurated on time

    • @messerschmittbolkow5606
      @messerschmittbolkow5606 5 років тому +48

      No, in other countrys the people are not just as dumb and useless as the Berliners

    • @rlnm3014
      @rlnm3014 5 років тому +92

      @@messerschmittbolkow5606 i get that their system was quite of n all and the design wasn't the best, but that's still no reason to say that they're dumb, like why would you say that?!

    • @AtzenGaffi
      @AtzenGaffi 5 років тому +15

      @@rlnm3014 Maybe because they are not able to plan a fucking fire system, which is there job.

    • @DerWaschbar2
      @DerWaschbar2 5 років тому +2

      gotta hand them that

    • @David-eh9le
      @David-eh9le 5 років тому +20

      Berlin is just a city full of fucking Hipster.

  • @MARGARELON
    @MARGARELON 4 роки тому +241

    Don't know what all that fuss is about. Construction of the Cologne Cathedral started in 1248 and was finished in 1880.

    • @BigAl2-u7e
      @BigAl2-u7e 3 роки тому +32

      This ain't the middle ages anymore.

    • @timprescott4634
      @timprescott4634 3 роки тому +23

      Also:
      La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

    • @VRtechman
      @VRtechman 3 роки тому +5

      The passengers waiting for a Flight to Heaven! 😅

    • @dieseldragon6756
      @dieseldragon6756 2 роки тому +1

      632 years?!? 😳
      No wonder Britain doesn’t have anything like Köln Dom - We don’t have the patience to spend even 632 *days* on a project like that! 🙃

  • @littlepercussionist
    @littlepercussionist 5 років тому +188

    "Bob, and the rest of Builders." We don't deserve this man and his God level content.

  • @gamingwithnerfbaboom
    @gamingwithnerfbaboom Рік тому +4

    3:49 Literally, "Bright No"