The Bavarian Nuremberg Airport will receive compensation from the state and the city for the holding costs it incurred during the first lockdown. Specifically, the airport will receive a financial subsidy for the period from March to June 2020. As a system-relevant infrastructure facility, the airport remained open around the clock, seven days a week, for repatriation flights, transport of harvest workers, medical emergencies and corona patient transports as well as important cargo flights. As compensation for the holding costs during this period, Kerstin Schreyer, State Minister for Housing, Construction and Transport, and Marcus König, Mayor of the City of Nuremberg, have now presented the grant notices from the shareholders. "Our airport ensured that during the shutdown, the people and the economy of the Nuremberg metropolitan region were not cut off from essential goods transport and that medical aid flights remained possible at all times. In this way, we made our contribution to overcoming the corona crisis," said NUE Managing Director Michael Hupe. Although the terminal remained largely deserted in the first half of 2020, operations continued behind the scenes. As part of the public service, the airport was kept open throughout so that the metropolitan region remained accessible for necessary rescue, ambulance and cargo flights. Initially, repatriation flights for travelers abroad were handled. This was followed by cargo flights that loaded disinfectants and medical equipment, for example. There were also medical flights that transported corona patients, among other things. The federal government and the shareholders of Nuremberg Airport, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Nuremberg, are each covering half of the resulting holding costs of around 14 million euros. Nuremberg Airport is one of 12 airports for which the federal government is also responsible due to its transport policy.