Rumors and hints have been around for a few days, but now it's fixed: Condor brought a lawsuit at the court of the European Union against state aid for competitor Lufthansa. The defendant is the EU Commission and not the crane carrier.

The company confirmed on Friday that the pleading was filed. The General Court of the European Union is the preliminary stage of the ECJ, which was created to relieve the Supreme Court. The piquant thing about the matter is that Condor itself has repeatedly received state aid and only because of this has escaped liquidation. The former Lufthansa subsidiary accuses the former mother of abusing her market power.

The background to this is the discontinued feeder flights on which Condor is dependent. Lufthansa, on the other hand, wants to better fill its own range of holiday flights, which will be launched under the Eurowings Discover brand.

Proceedings before the cartel office are already underway

An investigation is in progress before the German Federal Cartel Office, which was initiated as a result of a complaint by the holiday airline. The authority has already stated that a decision should be made as quickly as possible, because the contract will be terminated in June 2021.

Condor is suing the court of the European Union against the approval of the billion dollar state aid for Lufthansa, because it is of the opinion that the crane would violate the requirements and conditions. Among other things, it is provided that the funds may not be used to displace or buy up smaller competitors. The holiday airline sees itself pushed out of the market due to the canceled feeder flights.