How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment

Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by raverbashing on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:19PM (#9936723)

That's for the Amateurs, Professionals do a whole World Cup

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by ubernostrum on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:42PM (#9936871)

And to get into the hall of fame, you do an Olympics.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by woobar on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:18PM (#9938226)

Brazil and Russia are going to outdo this. By hosting both World Cup and Olympics within a few years.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by raverbashing on Friday July 24, 2015 @06:01AM (#9940983)

Russia also had the Winter Olympics (and Snow when it's 10C outside is expensive)

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by hkmurakami on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:06PM (#9939050)

Look no further than the $2.5 billion debacle that is the new Tokyo Olympic stadium.

A rather lavish expenditure for a country that is deep in debt.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by _delirium on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:00PM (#9939259)

Another example among many: Greece hosting the 2004 Olympics turned out not to be a great financial decision.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by shimo5037 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @10:59PM (#9939903)

They scrapped the plans. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/olympics-japan-stad...

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by digi_owl on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:54PM (#9939237)

A nation is never too deep in debt to host a sports event (or take part in a war)...

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by dugmartin on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:32PM (#9937595)

And to add a gold seal to your hall of fame certificate do an Olympics in Massachusetts.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by yitchelle on Friday July 24, 2015 @03:17AM (#9940511)

Interestingly, it seems that big sporting events that seems to make any money are those where you don't have to be "voted" to host the event. Think Wimbledon, Marathons, FA Cup finals etc.

Sporting events like the F1 Grand Prix, FIFA world cups and Olympics etc seems to be full of loss making money stories for the hosts, but its organisation company seems to do quite well out of it.

This is just a casual observation, and I could be totally wrong.

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Re:How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment by bluecalm on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:27PM (#9937917)

We went for smaller stakes by doing Euro 2012. I live in one of the hosting cities and it's easy to tell a lot of construction work was half-arsed and never finished (mainly roads). There is also not enough traffic to make the big stadium close to profitable but hey, that's another opportunity for the town to transfer some money to local football club (a lot of our politicians are connected to football structures).

It would be funny if it wasn't sad. No wonder people avoid paying taxes when they see the money being wasted all around and citizens not ever asked about new crazy idea to build with it. We already have an expensive aquapark, huge stadium and two airports though. I wonder what's next for a town with a population of 600k in one of the poorest EU countries.

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