Dusseldorf - This hall is simply the greatest - at least in NRW. On Tuesday, the new super-hangar "Air Berlin" was inaugurated at the airport - and goes beyond all previously unheard of dimensions:
220 meters long, 90 meters wide and 31 meters. The base area is the size of three football fields!
"It was schweinekalt and we were nearly blown away," recalled Airline Executive Director Achim Hunold smirk at the topping out of the hangar.
On Tuesday, the 59-year-old reason to smile: Just in time to 30 had Anniversary of the airline and only 16 months after construction work was Hunold Airport Director Christoph Blume symbolic key for the new hall.
The 65-Millionenbau - it's a hangar at the superlatives, equipped with modern technology: On the roof of the hall - a nearly 1,300-square-foot photovoltaic system for independent power supply.
Because they should be fed within the next 20 years also 2.7 million kilowatt-hours in the public grid. Two Kranbahnanlagen in the hall provide for the rapid transport of instinct and tail units.
From 5 May can be here three long-haul aircraft will be serviced simultaneously. Good for Air Berlin, good for the airport. Blume: "Through the service business, we have over our competitors a clear competitive advantage."
There's also praised by OB Elbers ( "This hangar is a milestone for the development of our airport!") And North Rhine-Westphalia Economics Minister Christa Thoben. "The dimension of the hall shows that Air Berlin intends in Dusseldorf still a lot."
Hunold has certainly, but he also claims. The federal government urgently needs to find a consensus in the air traffic control. In Europe we have 47 control facilities, in America there is only one.
With the fragmentation resulting delays, holding patterns and high costs. Through a single air traffic control, we could save, depending on the amount of crude oil prices, costs between 30 and 120 million euros. "
