Website berlin-airport.de Founded 1991 | Services Airport operation Number of employees 1,436 | |
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Type Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung | ||
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.
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. 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. In 2003, it was decided to have the airport come under public ownership instead. 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. He was succeeded by Hartmut Mehdorn, the previous CEO of Air Berlin, who took the office on 8 March 2013. 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.