BERLIN”S plans to build a modern new international airport appear once again to be in a mess with federal and state officials falling out with the consortium planning to turn the existing Schoenefeld into the state of the art Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. Costing E1.8bn the new airport, originally destined to open in 2007, would replace Tegal and the unique city centre Tempelhof Airport and turn Berlin into a true international gateway. If agreement on funding cannot be quickly agreed even a 2010 completion date would begin to look unlikely. In 2001, the three Berlin airports moved just 12.6m passengers, compared with 48.6m who passed through Frankfurt. In 1999 a similar scheme failed. http://www.berlin-airport.de