The Troubled History of the Berlin Brandenberg Airport

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Gustavo Sorola and Chris Demarais explore the more than 25 year saga of the Berlin Brandenberg Airport. Find out the story behind the troubled development of the German capitol's airport after the fall of the Berlin Wall on this episode of Black Box Down. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/blackboxdown to get 10% off your first month; and Green Chef — go to http://greenchef.com/blackboxdown60 with code blackboxdown60 for 60% off and free shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When traveling by air, there are many things that we as passengers take for granted.
0:07.0	For example, how much stock have you given to airports?
0:09.6	What goes into building an airport?
0:11.2	How does a location for an airport get selected?
0:13.2	How long does it take to build an airport?
0:15.1	How much does an airport cost?
0:16.4	And more importantly, what happens when things go terribly wrong?
0:19.1	Well, in this special supplemental episode of Black Box Down, we're going to talk about
0:21.8	Berlin's Brandenburg airports, nearly 25-year saga, discussed some highlights and low
0:27.5	lights of the airport construction process.
0:30.4	As always, I'm Gus and I'm here with Chris.
0:32.9	Hello, Chris.
0:33.9	Hi, Gus.
0:34.9	We're doing a weird one this week.
0:36.4	Yeah, I've been looking forward to this since we talked about it.
0:40.7	Oh, man, almost probably about a year.
0:43.2	It's probably been two years.
0:44.6	Yeah, it's been a long time.
0:46.1	Because you in passing talked about it.
0:48.6	I don't know if it was on a supplemental episode or if it was whenever me and you were playing
0:55.3	streaming like the airport construction.
0:58.6	Airport simulator?
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