War breaking out between Romanian airlines and Hungarian WizzAir?
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The head of Wizz Air, the Hungarian low-cost airline, has harshly criticised Romanian airlines. He said they existed as zombies in the air transport market.
Zombies?
As Napi.hu reported, József Váradi, the head of low-cost airline Wizz Air, told the Cluj-Napoca news portal when he began to castigate the Romanian national airline Tarom and the country’s low-cost company, Blue Air. He said these two are practically zombies in the air transport market.
The European Union has relaxed the conditions for subsidies because of the losses caused by the pandemic but, according to Váradi, Tarom and Blue Air can only avoid bankruptcy with government money.
Aid by the EU
The Cluj-Napoca Chronicle reports that the Romanian national airline, Tarom, will receive €1.9 million in state aid. According to Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu, the European Commission considered the aid to be in line with EU rules and thus approved it a few days ago. The sum of €1.9 million will be used by Tarom to cover damages caused by the pandemic between 1 July and 31 December 2020, iho.hu writes.
Critics
“Two Romanian airlines, state-owned Tarom and low-cost airline Blue Air, are on the verge of bankruptcy,”
Maszol quoted József Váradi, the CEO of Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air.
“We had significant losses in the two years of the epidemic, but our solvency was not affected,”