Hardly any other airline manages to make the negative headlines as often as Condor's Estonian sister company Marabu Airlines. In the meantime, voices are becoming louder, particularly in aviation forums, that the German Federal Aviation Office must intervene. It is entirely in keeping with Condor's tradition to use subsidiaries or sister companies in order to be able to reduce costs. For example, in the past there were several internal group ACMI providers - Condor Berlin, Thomas Cook Aviation and Thomas Cook Balearics - that were supposed to produce more cheaply than the company based near Frankfurt. The reason for this is relatively simple: on many routes there is fierce competition from low-cost airlines, holiday carriers and also the former parent company Lufthansa. Many airlines have disappeared from the market in Germany The German holiday airline market has now shrunk to just a few providers with German AOC. There used to be a large number of smaller airlines operating in this segment, but these either went bankrupt or were swallowed up by larger providers (and then went bankrupt with them, like the example of LTU/Air Berlin). Condor is only still on the market because the German government played the financial fireman several times. Apparently the carrier had better arguments than Air Berlin, for example, because the latter was broken up and closed down. Interestingly, Condor always presents itself as an absolute "underdog". For example, in the case of the Thomas Cook bankruptcy, it was presented as a "profitable company that was dragged into the maelstrom through no fault of its own". The taxpayer "had to" step in, then came Corona and the failed sale to Lot's parent company PGL, and once again the federal government made the mistake.