New Berlin airport on hold again
Associated Press reports that the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt which was originally set to open in Berlin this summer has been postponed for yet a second time.
The first delay was announced a few weeks before the original opening date of June, 2012. The date set as the new opening, March 17, 2013 has now been pushed back even farther to a possible October, 2013 date. The airport is now said to be budgeted at about $5 billion, over budget by about 1.2 million euros.
The announcement comes in the middle of a snarl of strikes that have beleaguered Lufthansa, both in Germany and abroad. Lufthansa’s current hub in Berlin is Tegel, an airport that experts say is overburdened and seriously out-of-date.
Both The New York Times and AP both report that construction and technical problems are the reason for the new airport’s delay.
The Times says German media is proposing a city-wide slogan: "Berlin, we can do everything, but nothing right."
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