The fact that Austrian Airlines transferred premiums and bonuses for the 2020 financial year to top management and around 2019 other executives at the end of July 200, but at the same time made use of state aid, is now angry with the opposition represented in the National Council. FPÖ traffic spokesman Christian Hafenecker even describes the AUA as the “self-service shop of the republic”.

Austrian Airlines already announced last week that the transfers were variable salary components from 2019 and that debts to management had been settled, so to speak. No premiums are to be expected for the current year, as the AUA is very likely to incur a loss due to the corona pandemic.

Hafenecker, member of the National Council, sees a completely different view in a broadcast: “The AUA board and around 200 executives at the Lufthansa subsidiary can look forward to a bonus payment even in times of great crisis. While every painting or metalworking company has to fall back on its careful savings in order to make ends meet, the airline is doing well. The reserves formed in 2019 will not be used to save employees' jobs or to minimize government aid of 450 million euros - no, bonuses will be distributed to management. It's like giving a supposed homeless person ten euros and he picks up the roast chicken he bought with it from the snack bar in his Porsche. It is also not surprising that our federal government has not responded to this atrocity. The already bad deal with the Lufthansa subsidiary, which does not even guarantee the home location, is also being exploited here - there is enough money now. "

“I've never seen an incompetent finance minister like Blümel in my life. How can you allow a company that is dependent on hundreds of millions of government aid to pay them out to its executives, who are ultimately responsible for this situation? You rub your hands again in the boardrooms. The ÖVP shows all large company owners that they can sit back and relax. When their businesses go down, they earn money from it. AUA employees have been on short-time work for months, their salaries are subsidized by taxpayers' money, and ticket reimbursements are paid in the millions. Nevertheless, the group is now using a loophole that the ÖVP and the Greens deliberately left open: there is a dividend ban for companies that live at state expense, but no bonus ban. There was a motion for a resolution by the SPÖ that should have prevented that, the ÖVP and the Greens opposed it again. The ÖVP can privatize profits, let taxpayers sit on the costs, ”said SPÖ traffic spokesman Alois Stöger in a broadcast.