BER – An airport whose time has come... and gone

On Thursday, airport boss, 71-year-old alpha male of Deutsche Bahn fame, Hartmut Mehdorn, announced that four percent of the building work needed for the airport to open has been completed. This is the guy that promised us a “sprint” when he took the helm earlier this week. At least Hartmut – whose name translates as something like “hard courage” - means well! Just a few days earlier, Joe Kaeser, the CEO of Siemens, one of German's most reputed industrial conc…