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According to media reports, Belgium requires solid guarantees for the Brussels Airlines subsidiary for possible government loan assistance to Lufthansa. Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès made this clear in a letter to Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, the “L’Echo” and “De Tijd” newspapers reported on Saturday.
This is € 290 million in aid as liquidity aid for Brussels Airlines. In return, the head of government demands detailed growth prospects and measurable goals for the development of Brussels airport as the hub of the Lufthansa subsidiary, he said. This included additional investments.
The issue of a Belgian state involvement with a possible veto power in corporate policy, for example in travel destinations, was also debated, newspapers reported.
AUA’s mother Lufthansa is currently negotiating government aid in Germany in the amount of around € 10 billion for the group. State participation is also being discussed. CEO Spohr had recently rejected broad state influence.
And now it apparently receives the support of politics, that is, of the parliamentary group CDU / CSU in the Bundestag: the state should stay away from a well-run company. That means: a maximum of silent participation and no political representation on the supervisory board, “said Deputy Director of the Union faction Ulrich Lange, who is also responsible for traffic, the” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “(FAS). from a “Spiegel” report, wants State to join Lufthansa to save the airline. ARD reported without citing sources that there was general agreement on the rescue package.
According to the FAS report, the Union fears that the political influence in Lufthansa is too great. Last week, the head of the Berlin airport, Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, requested more long-distance flights from the airline to the capital. “If we are currently talking in Germany that a German Lufthansa should be supported with around ten billion euros, then it makes sense to ask the national airline what it is doing for its capital,” Lütke Daldrup said Wednesday night in Berlin. . (dpa, reuters)
