Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH

Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH, commonly abbreviated FBB, is a German airport operator. Currently, it operates Berlin Tegel Airport and Berlin Schönefeld Airport, and is the building owner and future operator of Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

This article is about an airport operator. For the airport itself, see Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH
GmbH
IndustryTransport
Founded1991 (1991)
HeadquartersBerlin Brandenburg Airport, Schönefeld, Germany
Key people
Engelbert Lütke Daldrup (CEO)
Rainer Bretschneider (chairman of the supervisory board)
ServicesAirport operation
RevenueEUR 263.2 million[1]
Number of employees
1,436[1]
Websiteberlin-airport.de

FBB is owned by the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg (37 percent each), with the remaining shares being held by the Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the ministries of Transport and Finance).

History

When plans for a new Berlin Airport were made following the German reunification, Berlin Brandenburg Flughafen Holding GmbH (BBF) was founded on 2 May 1991.[2] In a privatization attempt, Hochtief was considered a suitable future owner and operator of the proposed airport, so that in 1998, negotiations commenced about the conditions under which Hochtief would acquire BBF.[3] In 2003, it was decided to have the airport come under public ownership instead.[4] BBF was renamed Berlin Brandenburg Flughafen GmbH (FBB) and serves as owner of the new airport since construction started in 2006.

Due to the construction and opening delays at the new airport, Rainer Schwarz, the CEO of FBB, was dismissed from his post on 16 January 2013.[5] He was succeeded by Hartmut Mehdorn, the previous CEO of Air Berlin, who took the office on 8 March 2013.[6] Klaus Wowereit, the Berlin mayor who had served as chairman of the FBB supervisory board since 2001, also stepped down from his post and was subsequently replaced by Matthias Platzeck, the Minister-President of Brandenburg.

During his tenure Hartmut Mehdorn appointed Jochen Grossmann as technical head, who was subsequently found guilty of corruption and fraud in June 2014 after demanding payment from potential contractors. Mehdorn announced a new opening date of "end of 2016" on December 12, 2014, only to quit as CEO three days later on December 15, 2014[7] and was replaced by Karsten Mühlenfeld in March 2015.[8] Mühlenfeld himself was later forced to terminate his contract early after the BER project was hit by delay after delay. One of his last acts as CEO was to announce a new opening date of 2018 for a project that began in 2006 and was initially supposed to open in 2011. He was replaced in March 2017 by Berlin's Secretary for Housing and Construction Engelbert Lütke Daldrup.

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References
  1. FBB Annual Report (2011, in German)
  2. Der Tagesspiegel: Die Akte Schönefeld - 1989 bis 1996. Published online on 2 December 2011 (in German).
  3. Die Welt: Hochtief baut in Schönefeld. Published online on 19 September 1998 (in German).
  4. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Privatisierung von Hauptstadt-Flughafen gescheitert. Published online on 22 May 2003 (in German).
  5. Yahoo News: Berlin airport CEO fired after delays to opening. Published online on 16 January 2013
  6. Spiegel Online: BER-Überraschung: Mehdorn wird Chef des Berliner Flughafens. Published on 8 March 2013 (in German).
  7. http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/2014-12/hartmut-mehdorn-hauptstaflughafen-ruecktritt-ber
  8. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/berliner-flughafen-ber-karsten-muehlenfeld-ist-der-anti-mehdorn-1144768
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