Germany's Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) currently stands as a monument to bad project management and epic construction delays. Years behind schedule and billions of Euros over budget, the thing has never been used and still hasn't opened. As a result, it might be a ghost airport.
This BBC article offers the monicker.
Dozens of gates are ready for aeroplanes to pull in. Information screens display simulated real-time flight information. Gleaming terminals stand waiting for passengers to walk through them. Berlin’s Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) looks exactly like every other major modern airport in Europe, except for one big problem: more than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty. There are no passengers using it.
One photo:
The caption for that photo read: "Empty 'ghost' trains run into the airport’s station every weekday to keep it properly ventilated."
Which is appropriate, since those trains now serve a ghost train station. Entertainingly, there's a German word for this: Geisterbahnhöfe. Wikipedia helpfully explains that "Ghost stations is the usual English translation..." More:
This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station actively passed through by passenger trains, especially those on an underground railway line. Sometimes the term is also employed for unused underground stations not passed by trains.
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