The German state is no longer a shareholder in the Lufthansa aviation group and made a profit of 760 million euros, after selling the shares it owned, two years after saving the company due to the pandemic.
The Finanzagentur des Bundes (similar to the Treasury) reported that “Deutsche Lufthansa’s stabilization has been successfully completed”.
The total proceeds from the sale of the state stake in Lufthansa amounted to 1,070 million euros, exceeding the purchase cost of the shares of 306 million euros, yielding a profit of 760 million euros for the German state.
“With this satisfactory balance sheet, the involvement of the Economic Stabilization Fund ends and the company is back in private hands”said the director of the Finanzagentur, Jutta Dönges.
The German state bailed out Lufthansa for 6,000 million euros in June 2020 due to the problems it faced after air traffic was banned to stop the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The German state acquired shares for 300 million euros and took a 20% stake in the airline, which it has now sold in its entirety.
Source: DN
