Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 24 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on International Travel

Mr. Evan Cullen:

The point is that there was no state support for Anisec in Austria and, to the best of our knowledge, there was no state support for Open Skies in Paris. Of those two airlines, one is in liquidation and the other has certainly stopped trading and is either up for sale or, if not, liquidation. The evidence is that if a state is not willing to back the local airline, IAG will not be willing to back it.