During the Corona pandemic, the Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines received significant financial support from the Austrian state. In addition to 150 million euros in "non-repayable subsidies", there was also a three-digit million euro amount from short-time work. The current federal government has had a problem with transparency around financial resources distributed during the Corona pandemic from the very beginning. A few subsidies can be seen in the transparency database, but especially in the case of large companies - for example under the guise of data protection - it was very important that the public and parliament did not know how much the state had provided for Austrian Airlines, Vienna Airport and other large companies as part of short-time work. Information about this was refused, so the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation took the matter to court. The Federal Administrative Court saw the refusal to provide information about the amount of Corona aid as a violation of the law and ordered the release of the information. In total, the government spent 9,8 billion euros on short-time work. At the top of the list of individual recipients published by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation is Austrian Airlines. In addition to short-time work, this company received a "non-repayable grant" of 150 million euros. A state-guaranteed loan, which has since been repaid, was also granted. In 2020, Austrian Airlines was the first large company to register short-time work. The employees were on this measure for a comparatively very long period of time, which is intended to preserve jobs. However, there were also financial losses for those affected, because the AMS does not cover the entire wage costs.