“This is only the beginning,” said Claus Heinemann at the opening event. The next phase of development is the building (well under way) and planned opening of a new Terminal C by December 2019, with capacity for 20 million passengers. This will include over 2,500sq m of retail space, with around 400sq m allocated to arrivals duty free. That channel should be trading by early in the new year. Beyond that will come Terminal C2 by around 2022, also with substantial commercial space. That’s all part of a long-term plan: the figure of just over 40 million passengers in 2017 could double in the next decade, according to the airport company and its partners.