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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - Saxony-Anhalt has welcomed plans by the federal government to support airports with further financial injections during the Corona crisis.
The state stands by its responsibility as a shareholder for Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG and has therefore already promised liquidity support in the summer, said a spokesman for the finance ministry of the German press agency.
However, your own resources could only compensate for a small part of the losses.
Therefore, the announced federal aid is very much welcomed.
However, the ministry left open whether and with what amount Saxony-Anhalt would participate in the state cash injection.
The details of the federal plans are still too vague for that, it said.
Further coordination between the federal and state governments is necessary.
Like the neighboring Free State of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt is a co-owner of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG with the Leipzig / Halle and Dresden airports. Together with the city of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt has a fifth of the company's shares. In the summer, the finance committee of the Magdeburg state parliament released five million euros as liquidity aid. This is intended to compensate for the fact that the passenger business collapsed during the Corona crisis. The federal government wants to support ailing airports across Germany and German air traffic control. Up to half a billion euros are in the room from the federal government, which is to be supplemented by an equally large sum by the federal states.