Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 Opens

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Construction Begins on Frankfurt Airport's €4 Billion Terminal 3

  Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3, Gateway Gardens, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyFraport

  

  Starts 10/05/2015CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.0 years agoFraport's^[2] own Terminal 3 press kit states 'the groundbreaking ceremony for Terminal 3 took place on October 5, 2015.'

  Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Fraport Presents Frankfurt Terminal 3's First Sky Line Train

  Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3, Gateway Gardens, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyFraport

  

  Starts 11/03/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoFraport's^[2] press release 'Terminal 3: First Vehicle for New Sky Line Presented' states the vehicle was presented on November 3, 2022.

  Fraport presented the first vehicle of its new automated Sky Line people-mover for Frankfurt Airport's €4 billion Terminal 3, a key milestone as the terminal neared completion.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Munich Airport Opens as Franz Josef Strauss International Airport

  Nordallee 25, 85356 München, GermanyMunich Airport

  

  Starts 05/17/1992CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE34.4 years agoMunich Airport's own history page and Wikipedia^[3] both give 17 May 1992 as its opening date at the current site.

  Munich Airport opened at its current site on 17 May 1992, replacing Munich-Riem, and is one of only two European airports to hold Skytrax's 5-Star rating.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Abu Dhabi's Midfield Terminal Opens as Zayed International Airport

  Zayed International Airport, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi Airports

  

  Starts 11/01/2023CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "will begin operations on 1 November 2023, bringing a major increase to passenger capacity."

  Abu Dhabi's long-delayed Midfield Terminal began operations as Terminal A of the newly renamed Zayed International Airport, six years behind its original 2017 target.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  SFO's Terminal 3 West Expansion Opens

  Terminal 3, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA 94128San Francisco International Airport

  

  Starts 09/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 343 daysThe builder's announcement says the expansion "is scheduled to open in the fall of 2027", a season rather than a day.^[1]

  Turner broke ground on 5 September 2024 on the $2.6 billion modernization of SFO's Terminal 3: a 200,000-square-foot expansion, 650,000 square feet of renovation and a new six-story building holding airline lounges and operational offices. The eastern addition follows in 2029.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Phoenix Sky Harbor Starts Building Its Third Terminal

  Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, 3400 E Sky Harbor Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85034City of Phoenix

  

  Starts 01/01/2029ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsThe airport's own schedule lists "Construction 2029 - 2033" with no start date, so the pin uses the start of 2029.^[1]

  Sky Harbor's West Terminal, the airport's first new terminal since Terminal 4 opened in 1990, is scheduled to go into construction in 2029 and open in 2033, with the number of concourses and gates still to be decided. The airport puts the likely cost at around $4.5 billion, paid for with passenger facility charges, bonds and airport funding rather than tax dollars.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Heathrow's £49BN Third Runway Plan

  Heathrow Airport, London, United KingdomHeathrow Airport Limited

  

  Starts 12/31/2035ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: consent is only aimed for "before 2030", after which "a third runway would then open by 2035".

  Heathrow Airport has set out a £49BN expansion plan, including a long-sought third runway and a new terminal complex, and has approved work on a planning application after decades of UK government indecision.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Beijing Daxing International Airport Opens

  Beijing Daxing International Airport, Daxing District, Beijing, ChinaZaha Hadid Architects

  

  Starts 09/25/2019CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The airport opened on 25 September 2019."

  Beijing opened Daxing International Airport, a vast starfish-shaped terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to relieve pressure on the capital’s overcrowded main airport.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Pudong Airport Starts Building Terminal 3

  Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Airport Authority

  

  Starts 11/20/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoThe Shanghai^[1] government's English news page reports that "Shanghai Pudong International Airport began the construction of its Terminal 3 on Nov 20".

  Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Berlin Brandenburg Airport Finally Opens

  Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Schönefeld, GermanyFlughafen Berlin Brandenburg

  

  Starts 10/31/2020CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the airport opened on October 31, 2020, ending nearly three decades of delays.

  After nearly 30 years of delays, cost overruns and a notorious spell as an empty 'ghost airport', Berlin Brandenburg Airport opened to passengers.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Long Thanh International Airport Holds Its Technical Opening

  Long Thanh International Airport, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

  

  Starts 12/19/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE278 days agoThe 19 December 2025 ceremony itself is confirmed, but it was a technical opening rather than the completion of Phase 1: Wikipedia^[2] records it as a ceremonial 'technical opening' with full commercial operations scheduled for December 2026, and the government's own report counted only three of 15 construction packages finished, with 12 still under way.

  Vietnam marked a ceremonial 'technical opening' of its US$4.6 billion first phase at Long Thanh International Airport near Ho Chi Minh City with the first landings, while most of Phase 1 was still under construction.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Austin-Bergstrom Opens Concourse B and Its Passenger Tunnel

  Concourse B site, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, 3600 Presidential Boulevard, Austin, TX 78719, United StatesAustin-Bergstrom International Airport

  

  Starts 01/01/2030DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsThe airport's own programme page says Concourse B and its tunnel are "estimated to open in the early 2030s", a span rather than a date.^[1]

  The airport's second concourse is a standalone midfield building south of the Barbara Jordan Terminal, reached by an underground walkway with moving walkways, and carries a new integrated baggage system. It is meant to open alongside the $865 million Arrivals and Departures Hall under the Journey With AUS programme.

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