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Schönefeld (dpa) - The capital city airport BER can achieve the goal of black numbers in the mid-20s, according to operators, only with the help of further public financial aid.
Partial debt relief is an essential tool for this, said CFO Aletta von Massenbach of the "Berliner Morgenpost" (Friday).
"That would save us significant interest and repayment burdens over the years."
The company currently owes more than 4.5 billion euros, she said.
"Of these, more than four billion come from the time before Corona, from the too long and too expensive construction of BER."
With the prospect of significantly fewer passengers than expected, it is clear that the debt is overwhelming the company.
According to von Massenbach, the Berlin Brandenburg Airport Company (FBB) has to spend around 180 million euros annually on interest and repayment.
That roughly corresponds to the sales of 2020. The number of passengers had fallen to less than a third of the previous year's level due to the corona crisis.
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Airport boss Engelbert Lütke Daldrup said there was a shortage of one million euros in income every day.
He left it open how much money the company would like from its owners, the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and the federal government.
In the past few days there was talk of more than 3.5 billion euros in guarantees and equity injections in the media, citing supervisory board documents.
"We first have to explain these figures to the supervisory board," said Lütke Daldrup.
"But we're not talking about partial debt relief in the order of 3.5 billion euros, but significantly less."
The control committee will meet again in mid-March.
The planned federal aid for airports in the Corona crisis does not change the difficult situation too much.
Lütke Daldrup expects a good 140 million euros.
"The problem of our very high debt level from the construction phase of BER cannot be solved with corona aid from the federal government," said Lütke Daldrup.
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A partial sale of the airport is not planned in his words.
"We agree with the owners that the method of support from the shareholders is the right one and that all other options, such as partial privatization, currently make no sense."
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