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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Thuringia's only international airport in Erfurt receives a financial injection from the federal government.
The Federal Ministry of Transport announced on Friday in Berlin that it was about the reimbursement of costs for keeping the airport open at the beginning of the corona pandemic last year.
How high the payment for Erfurt is, cannot yet be quantified, said Thuringia's Transport Minister Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff (left).
It is about supporting the airports in the pandemic, said Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) in Berlin.
The federal government will support the 15 most important German airports with a total of more than 600 million euros.
In addition, there is financial support for air traffic control - both at regional airports and for German air traffic control.
According to Hoff, the federal government's payments only cover the period from March to June 2020. Erfurt Airport will receive 2.3 million euros from the state treasury this year as planned.
That is the regular subsidy with which the airport is likely to get along, given its own income, among other things through the marketing of space.
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There is currently almost no flight operation.
The area in Erfurt-Bindersleben is used by the Airbus Group to park aircraft that cannot be delivered.
The parliamentary group of the Greens reaffirmed its position not to keep the airport alive with further state subsidies.
She advocated a concept for a different use of the area.
Hoff, but also the SPD parliamentary group, contradicted this.
The SPD transport politician Lutz Liebscher said: "If you don't want to see the importance of the airport for the regional economy, you have to shut your eyes."
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