Criticism of subsidies for state airlines. The winners of the crisis are the low-cost airlines.
Europe's leading low-cost airline Ryanair will again expand its significantly reduced range in Germany due to the corona crisis. “There are certain countries in which we want to expand. Germany is one of them,” said the Ryanair boss for the region Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Eddie Wilson, on Tuesday at the virtual tourism fair ITB. The passenger flight business will be the first to recover on short-haul routes in Europe, said Wilson.
Criticism of state aid
Low-cost airlines are winners of the crisis, believes Lauda mother Ryanair. Wilson criticized the “obsession” of European states to support the leading national airlines with state aid in the crisis, even though the airlines' business models have already failed. Further state financial injections are inevitable, even if this is a waste of taxpayers' money, which is needed much more urgently in other parts of society. It is bizarre that Portugal is helping TAP and Italy is helping Alitalia. Lufthansa and Condor had both received state aid and are now fighting each other in court. “This is nonsense,” said Wilson.
