Commissioning such a gigantic complex required general-staff planning. This included extensive test runs where Lufthansa employees had a go at being passengers. On one such occasion, our photographer Frieder Blickle took the photos shown on this page. While the finishing touches were still being made to the check-in desks, the ground staff were already testing emergency scenarios. With success: the regular operations started without a hitch. For the first time ever, airline and airport operators design and build a terminal together: the Lufthansa and its partner airlines now profit from the optimal conditions created by the new building.