柏林拖延已久的新机场将于2020年10月开放

Berlin’s much-delayed new airport has a new opening date: Oct. 31, 2020. That is nine years later than the date envisioned when construction started in 2006.

柏林拖延已久的新机场有一个新的开放日期:2020年10月31日。这比2006年开工时的预期日期晚了9年。

The operator of the German capital’s airports announced the date on Friday.

德国首都机场的运营商周五宣布了这一日期。

The new BER airport has defied all clichés of German efficiency: construction problems and technical delays saw the date pushed back repeatedly — most dramatically in 2012, when the opening was canceled just four weeks before it was supposed to happen.

新的BER机场打破了德国效率的所有陈词滥调:建筑问题和技术上的延误导致日期一再推迟——最引人注目的是在2012年，该机场在本应开放的四周前被取消。

The delays have left Berlin relying on two small, aging and increasingly crowded Cold War-era airports: Tegel, which served West Berlin, and Schoenefeld, just outside the city limits, which was communist East Berlin’s airport.

由于航班延误，柏林只能依靠两个小型的、老化的、越来越拥挤的冷战时期的机场:为西柏林服务的泰格尔机场(Tegel)和位于城市边界外的东柏林共产主义机场舍恩费尔德机场(Schoenefeld)。

The operator had previously said that it aimed to open the new airport next October but had stopped short of committing itself to a specific date.

该运营商此前曾表示，计划在明年10月开放新机场，但没有承诺具体日期。

Airport boss Engelbert Luetke Daldrup said that the move to the new airport will be phased.

机场老板恩格尔伯特·路特克·达尔德鲁普表示，新机场的搬迁将分阶段进行。

Flights to and from Tegel, the busier of the existing two airports, are scheduled to end on Nov. 8, 2020, but airlines will continue to use the existing Schoenefeld terminal, across the tarmac from the new airport, for some time.

泰格尔机场是现有两个机场中比较繁忙的一个，往返泰格尔的航班预计将于2020年11月8日结束，但航空公司仍将在一段时间内继续使用现有的舍恩费尔德机场(Schoenefeld terminal)。

“We still have 11 months of hard work in front of us,” Luetke Daldrup said. A test phase of systems at the airport will run from April to October, “then BER can be opened safely and reliably,” he added.

“我们还有11个月的艰苦工作要做，”Luetke Daldrup说。机场系统的测试阶段将从4月持续到10月，“这样BER就可以安全可靠地打开了，”他补充道。