This is a series about the biggest scandal in Berlin since Michael Jackson dangled a baby out a window. It is represented by three capitalized cherry-red san-serif letters - BER. That's the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, nickname Willy Brandt. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption and Berlin's general inability to get its s**t together. If you've flown to Berlin Schönefeld Airport in the last few years, you'll have seen BER as your plane taxied along the runway. Look out your window and there it is, lit up bright as a Christmas tree, a big beautiful glass-walled neo-modernist construction. But your plane can't dock there - not now, not in a year, and maybe not ever, according to some critics. Despite outward appearances, BER is far from finished. It has been under construction for 11 years. It has blown through six opening dates, three general managers and two state leaders. Costs have ballooned from around €1 billion