Daily Roundup--May 8, 2012

Air Canada has begun flights between Toronto Pearson and NY’s JFK airport making it the only Canadian airline to fly to all three of NY’s major airports. Air Canada eventually plans to operate 38 flights a day between Canada and New York City.

Costa Cruises, the owner of the Costa Concordia that crashed and nearly sunk off the coast of Italy in January, has introduced new safety measures with the inauguration of its newest ship. No mention if the company will continue to order its captains to sail dangerously close to shore to “show off” its boats.

USAir is continuing its growth at Washington’s Reagan National Airport with new daily service to Cincinnati and Des Moines.

Air India pilots are calling in sick today over a dispute as to who should be trained to fly the new Boeing Dreamliner.

Berlin’s new airport, Berlin-Brandenburg, will not open as scheduled on June 3. There seems to be a problem with fire security, whatever that means. The delay will be until at least after the summer. Eventually, this new airport will become Berlin’s main, and only, airport. Lufthansa, which had planned major expansion out of Berlin, doesn’t want to wait until the new airport opens and has requested more slots at Berlin’s Tegel airport.