Hamburg / Bremen / Hanover – More than one billion euros in federal and state aid is to flow to German airports as a corona compensation. The federal government wants to concentrate aid on the larger airports. Locations in the north should also benefit.
Only the 15 largest airports of high importance in terms of transport policy should receive direct Corona aid
In addition to the payments of around 400 million euros to the three airports with federal participation, i.e. Berlin, Munich and Cologne-Bonn, the federal government wants to help twelve larger airports of high importance in terms of transport policy that it does not own with 200 million euros in non-repayable grants.
According to a paper from coalition circles, these are the airports of Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster / Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart.
Specifically, it is about the reimbursement of costs for keeping airports open at the beginning of the corona pandemic.
The prerequisites for federal support are therefore that the respective federal states make a subsidy of the same amount, no dividends are distributed for 2020 and no bonuses are paid to managing directors and board members of the operating companies.
The states had previously declared their general readiness for a 50-50 model, which Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) had proposed. The overall package is about well over a billion euros, it said.
Unfortunately, smaller airports get empty: The international airports of Dortmund, Paderborn, Weeze, Friedrichshafen, Hahn and Karlsruhe-Baden-Baden would have to do without direct federal funding. Regional airports such as Memmingen, Kassel, Lübeck or Rostock were also not taken into account.
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