The “adventure” of the supposed “eco-airline” of the ticket seller Green Airlines cost taxpayers dearly. The company received state aid worth 2021 million euros in 1,8. Spicy: Shortly after the payout, airlines like German Airways announced its payment obligations.

Green Airlines had not yet operated a particularly large number of charter flights until the state aid amounting to 1,8 million euros was approved. Immediately before the approval from the Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg, you can book holiday flights from Rostock and Paderborn, those with old Boeing 737-300s from Alk Airlines should be carried out. Spicy: These were discontinued after just a few rounds, according to the airline operating them Payments are said to have been missed and the aircraft was therefore withdrawn. It didn't take long before German Airways also applied its services and it was revealed that the ticket seller was Green Airlines should be in the chalk with a double-digit million euro amount.

The state aid that Green Airlines was approved on June 8, 2021 is so-called Corona aid from the Federal Republic of Germany. As is usual in Baden-Württemberg, the transaction was processed via L-Bank. The ticket seller did not maintain a sales office or administration at the registered company headquarters in Karlsruhe, but rather at a mailbox provider just booked a so-called postal service. The key data on the state aid granted can be viewed by anyone, as it was mandatory for the public sector to enter it into the publicly accessible database “State Aid Transparency Award Module”.

It is noteworthy that “flight operations” only began on March 26, 2021. Apart from Paderborn-Sylt, other destinations such as Zurich were not served at all. From the beginning, the collaboration with the ticket seller seems to have been bumpy, as the “flight partners” changed extremely frequently. It is therefore questionable what “loss of earnings” Green Airlines actually claims to have had beforehand due to the corona pandemic.

After a “winter break” in domestic German traffic, this time from Weeze, move on. Apart from individual flights with chartered small aircraft towards Sylt, it was soon over. Shortly afterwards, the homepage disappeared from the Internet and the company could not be reached by telephone or email. However, the European Consumer Center is still busy for a long time, as they are still trying two years after the “cessation of operations”. To make customer claims collectible.