Munich Airport Opens as Franz Josef Strauss International Airport

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  Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 Opens

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  Starts 04/23/2026CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE153 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the first travellers to arrive at Frankfurt's brand-new... Terminal 3", on April 23, 2026.

  Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.

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  Berlin Brandenburg Airport Finally Opens

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  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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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Beijing Daxing International Airport Opens

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  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

  Austin-Bergstrom Opens Concourse B and Its Passenger Tunnel

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  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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  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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  Western Sydney Airport Opens to Passengers

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  Starts 10/25/2026SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEin 32 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "Western Sydney to open to passengers on 25 October" 2026.

  Western Sydney International Airport, a AU$5.3BN project decades in the making, opens to passenger flights to relieve an overwhelmed Sydney Airport as the city's population grows toward 7 million.

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  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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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Lufthansa Takes Delivery of Its First Airbus A380

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  Starts 05/19/2010CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE16.3 years agoBusiness Traveller^[6] and Aviation International News both report Lufthansa took delivery of its first A380 on 19 May 2010.

  Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 at Hamburg on 19 May 2010, putting the double-decker superjumbo into European airline service weeks later.

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  Lufthansa Takes Delivery of Its First Airbus A350-900

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  Starts 12/19/2016CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE9.8 years agoch-aviation reports the hand-over of D-AIXA at a ceremony at Toulouse-Blagnac on Monday 19 December 2016; Airbus's^[3] press release is dated 21 December 2016 but names no day, and the aircraft flew on to Munich on 21 December.

  Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 from Airbus's Toulouse delivery centre, the initial aircraft of a 25-jet order that became the backbone of its new Munich long-haul hub. The A350 entered scheduled service two months later, flying Munich to Delhi.

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  Portland International Airport Opens New Main Terminal

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  Starts 08/14/2024DELAYED4 months late44% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The opening was delayed from the originally scheduled spring opening by four months due to workplace safety issues in April."

  After a four-year, $2 billion rebuild, Portland International Airport opened its overhauled main terminal, built around a nine-acre mass-timber roof sourced entirely from within 300 miles of the airport.

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  Platov International Airport Opens Near Rostov-on-Don

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  Starts 12/07/2017CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The airport was officially opened on 7 December 2017 at 11:00am".

  A greenfield, $940M airport built ahead of Russia's 2018 World Cup opens outside Rostov-on-Don, engineered to be able to double its capacity later.

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  Nuuk International Airport Opens in Greenland

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  Starts 11/28/2024CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Nuuk International Airport officially opened to the public on November 28, 2024".

  Greenland's capital opened its new international airport on November 28, 2024, ending Nuuk's dependence on connecting flights for long-haul travel.

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