It’s not wrong, though.

You added some really valuable context but it doesn’t detract from BER being relatively inexpensive compared to other airport projects.

> it doesn’t detract from BER being relatively inexpensive compared to other airport projects

But it does incorrectly describe BER as a "brand new airport", where the reality is: "The northern runway of BER is the southern runway of the old Schönefeld Airport and has been in use since the 1960s." (Wikipedia) and also it's a single terminal. At this point, it's then very similar to the Heathrow project in what's being delivered, except for the added context I gave.

Off topic, but it's an interesting read how they originally acquired the land for Heathrow.

"Harold Balfour ... deliberately deceived the government committee into believing a requisition was necessary so that Heathrow could be used as a [military base] in support of the war with Japan. In reality, Balfour wrote that he always intended the site to be used for civil aviation, and used a wartime emergency requisition order to avoid a lengthy and costly public inquiry."

British government in requisitioning other people's land shocker.