A monitoring committee for the new airport in Berlin ordered an "immediate halt to building work in the entire area beneath the terminal roof in BER," a spokesman for the Berlin-Brandenburg air transport group (FBB) told reporters, referring to the airport by its acronym BER.
Berlin has three airports, out of which two, Tegel and Schönefeld are operational. The third, Tempelhof , has been closed. Schönefeld will be merged with BER, if and when the capital's new airport - once due to open in 2012, now tentatively scheduled for 2017 - ever launches.
