The opening of the new Luanda Airport has been postponed for the fourth time. Transport Minister Ricardo Viegas d'Abreu now named "end of 2023" as the new date for the commissioning of the five billion US dollar project.

For 13 years, a consortium of Chinese companies has been building the future “Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto Airport". The story so far corresponds to a blueprint of the events that took place at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. The costs have gotten out of hand and are officially estimated at five billion US dollars. Furthermore, there were serious construction defects in various areas, which meant that the opening had to be postponed four times.

The new Luanda Airport (Angola) is expected to have a capacity of around 15 million passengers per year. This makes the new building project smaller than Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, but the problems during construction are absolutely comparable. After all: A runway is already operational, but cannot be used because the surrounding infrastructure is not ready for use. The terminal is said to have serious construction defects in various areas. It is expected to take well over a year to fix this.

The future airport is to be named “Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto”. The naming is in honor of the first President of Angola. Air traffic is currently handled via the existing Aeroporto Internacional Quatro de Fevereiro. In the future, the vast majority of air traffic will use the new airport.