BERLIN (AP) -- A Delta Air Lines flight from New York relaunched nonstop service between Berlin and the United States on Tuesday, about 3' years after it was stopped following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Delta plans daily Boeing 767 flights between John F. Kennedy Airport and Berlin's Tegel airport.
Lufthansa began the last attempt at scheduled U.S. service, a Berlin-Washington link, in March 2001, but scrapped it shortly after the Sept. 11 suicide pilots slammed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Delta closed down a previous Berlin-New York service in 1998 - a year before the German government returned to Berlin from Bonn - citing lack of business.
A shortage of business-class customers in Berlin is seen as a key reason for the repeated failures. Berlin's jobless rate is nearly 20 percent; key industries moved away after World War II and others in the eastern part collapsed after the end of communism.
