In an issue of the consumer magazine Saldo, the Swiss Federal Council does not come off well. On the contrary. While Flag Carrier Swiss can cope with the crisis with generous help from the state, Easyjet Switzerland has received nothing to this day.

The two airlines were fighting for government support. The Lufthansa subsidiary finally received the equivalent of 1,66 billion euros in the wake of the corona pandemic for daughter Edelweiss and itself. And that very easily, as now ch-aviation.com reported. Nothing has been agreed about management wages or the environment, only travel agency tickets should be refunded as soon as possible. Those affected who have not booked through a tour operator may still be fobbed off with vouchers.

In contrast, the Easyjet subsidiary went home empty-handed even after several applications - and the tip that one should “ask the parent company for an injection of money”. The airline has a market share of around 45 percent at Geneva Airport and as much as 60 percent in Basel. At Swiss, the shares in Geneva make up 14 percent, from Basel it does not fly and at the Zurich hub it records 54 percent. Recently there have been warnings from the federal government: it is “politically unsustainable to prefer Zurich as a location”. But nothing changes in the situation, the cheap carrier is excluded by the Federal Council.