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New BER boss Aletta von Massenbach: "We need cash"

2021-10-30T07:20:21.137Z


BER Airport urgently needs further financial aid. That said the new boss Aletta von Massenbach in an interview with the "Tagesspiegel". You are now at a crossroads.


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Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BER), which opened a year ago, urgently needs the next financial injection to avert insolvency. "We need money fast, we need cash," said the new boss Aletta von Massenbach in an interview with the Berlin newspaper "Tagesspiegel". According to this, the liquidity of the Berlin, Brandenburg and Federal Airport Company (FBB) will still last "until the first quarter of 2022". In mid-February, however, FBB had "to make a large payment for debt servicing," said von Massenbach. And further: "We cannot do the debt service ourselves for a long time."

Von Massenbach has only been the chief manager of FBB since October 1st.

Their financial situation has been desolate for a long time;

in the past year it had made a loss of around one billion euros.

The auditor Karl-Heinz Wolf had therefore called for bankruptcy in SPIEGEL.

In the »Tagesspiegel« it is now said that FBB will need a further 2.4 billion euros from its three owners, the states of Berlin and Brandenburg as well as the federal government by 2026.

"The fact that we still need so much money for BER is extremely bitter," said von Massenbach.

But there is no plan B.

You could define the room for maneuver: »BER is ready, you can operate it and earn money.

Or it just costs. "

Clarification of the breakdowns at the beginning of the holiday

Von Massenbach also assured that consequences had been drawn from the autumn holiday chaos at BER.

"I guarantee we'll do everything we can to make it run as smoothly as possible," she said.

"I cannot guarantee that it will always work perfectly."

At the beginning of the autumn break, there were unusually long waiting times at the counters at BER;

some vacationers even worried that they would miss their flight.

According to information from "Welt am Sonntag", the acting Federal Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer (CSU), put pressure on the airport's management: According to this, Scheuer is demanding a written report on the breakdowns from BER boss von Massenbach by November 5th.

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Source: spiegel

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