The German government will help 15 airports, the others will only get one fee waiver. But there are conditions.
Three airports hit the jackpot: The German government is helping Berlin, Munich and Cologne / Bonn with a total of 400 million euros. This is reported by the DPA news agency with reference to an agreement between ministries and government groups. The Federal Republic is directly involved in the three large airports.
Another 200 million euros in the form of non-repayable grants will be given to twelve other German airports, according to the report. With this, the German government wants to compensate for the costs that resulted from keeping it open at the beginning of the corona pandemic. The other twelve lucky ones are: Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster / Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart.
45,000 jobs at risk
However, the prerequisite for state aid is that the federal states also participate to the same extent. In addition, no dividends or bonuses may be distributed to managers for 2020, as DPA reports. The other airports in Germany do not receive any direct help. These are Dortmund, Friedrichshafen, Hahn, Heringsdorf, Karlsruhe-Baden-Baden, Kassel, Lübeck Memmingen, Paderborn, Rostock or Weeze.
At least the government is willing to take on the air traffic control costs that the regional airports had to bear themselves – in contrast to the 15 international airports. The industry association ADV had previously warned that a catastrophe threatened without help. “The existence of a quarter of the more than 180,000 employees at German airports is acutely threatened,” he wrote in a statement. The smaller locations are also important. They provided the urgently needed transport links in the regions and contributed to strengthening economic power there.
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