The European General Court has annulled decisions taken by the European Commission in 2020 and 2021 to approve French state aid for Air France (AF, Paris CDG) during the Covid-19 pandemic on the grounds that Air France-KLM and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) would also have benefitted from the advantage of the funding over the group’s competitors.

The case is one of many that Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) and its subsidiary Malta Air (MAY, Malta International) brought…

Source: ch aviation
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