New Berlin airport delayed for fourth time The project has quickly turned into a fiasco for local politicians in Berlin and Brandenburg, the state that surrounds the capital and is the site for the new airport. The two state governments together own a majority in the airport's management company. In Germany, a nation that has gained a reputation for planning, engineering and financial discipline, the airport's elusive opening has become the butt of jokes, many of them singling out Berlin's center-left mayor Klaus Wowereit. Opposition lawmakers called Monday for him to step down. "Such an incompetent handling of an infrastructure project of that dimension must have consequences," the Greens' national party leader Claudia Roth told n-tv television. Local Greens and Pirate Party lawmakers both said they will organize a confidence vote to unseat Wowereit. The mayor's centrist coalition, however, holds a comfortable majority in the Berlin state legislature. Mr Rudolph reiterated that the federal government, which holds only a minority stake in the airport, no longer has confidence in the airport's chief executive Rainer Schwarz. The airport's stakeholders will hold a meeting to discuss the new situation as soon as possible, he added. Mr Rudolph declined to speculate on a possible new opening date ahead of those talks. German mass-circulation tabloid cited internal documents as saying that the opening might be delayed until 2015. The airport's press department did not return calls seeking comment.