The Bavarian Airport in Nuremberg is compensated by the state and the city for the maintenance costs that were incurred during the first lockdown. Specifically, the airport will receive a financial grant for the period from March to June 2020.

As a systemically important infrastructure facility, the airport remained open for return flights, transport of harvest workers, medical emergencies and corona patient transports, as well as important cargo flights around the clock, seven days a week. To compensate for the maintenance costs during this period, Kerstin Schreyer, Minister of State for Housing, Building and Transport, and Marcus König, Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, have now handed over the grant notices from the shareholders.

“Our airport ensured that during the shutdown the people and the economy of the Nuremberg metropolitan region were not cut off from essential goods transport and that medical aid flights were possible at all times. In doing so, we made our contribution to overcoming the corona crisis, ”says NUE Managing Director Michael Hupe.

Although the terminal remained largely orphaned in the first half of 2020, operations continued behind the scenes. As part of public services, the airport was kept open at all times so that the metropolitan region could be reached for necessary rescue, ambulance and cargo flights. Return flights for travelers abroad were initially handled. Freight flights followed, carrying disinfectants and medical equipment, for example. There were also medical flights that transported corona patients, among other things.

The federal government as well as the shareholders of Nuremberg Airport, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Nuremberg will each bear half of the costs incurred in the amount of around 14 million euros. Nuremberg Airport is one of 12 airports for which the federal government has planned a compensation payment due to its importance in terms of transport policy.