Government aid to airlines in Europe COVID-19

As of April 2021, the German major airline Lufthansa of the Lufthansa Group received over 6.8 billion euros in bailout package aid from the German government. Until the end of September 2020, the amount of government aid issued directly to airlines worldwide amounted to almost 100 billion U.S. dollars in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) shock.

European government aid to airlines amid COVID-19 as of April 2021, by airline (in million euros) *

Characteristic	Government aid in million euros
Air France-KLM Group (France)	8,000
Lufthansa AG - Lufthansa	6,840
TUI Group	3,526
Air France-KLM Group (Netherlands)	3,400
IAG - British Airways	2,553
EasyJet	2,240
Lufthansa AG - SWISS/ Edelweiss	1,420
Finnar	1,237
TAP	1,200
SAS	1,130
IAG - Iberia	750
Ryanair	670
Lot	650
Condor	550
Air Europa	475
Lufthansa AG - Austrian Airlines	450
Wizzair	344
All airlines operating in Sweden	318
Alitalia	297
Lufthansa AG - Brussels Airlines	290
Norwegian Airlines	277
IAG - Vueling	260
Air Baltic	250
Corsair International	141
SATA Air Açores	133
Wideroe and regional carriers in Norway	121
Aegean Airlines	120
Blue Air	62
Danish airlines and small regional airports	34.9
Nordica	30
TAROM	19.3
Croatia Airlines	11.7

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Release date

April 2021

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Europe

Survey time period

as of April 2021

Supplementary notes

* Figures indicate agreed amount by the government. for the airlines. Air France - KLM Group (France), Air France-KLM Group (Netherlands), and Finnair still have and additional request for further bailout help from the respective jurisdictions.

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