Swiss repays corona credit early

Airbus A330-300 (Photo: Pixabay).
Airbus A330-300 (Photo: Pixabay).

Swiss repays corona credit early

Airbus A330-300 (Photo: Pixabay).
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Swiss stumbled during the pandemic - a guarantee from the federal government flushed fresh money into the coffers. Now the Lufthansa subsidiary has already repaid the loan.

The group repaid a bank loan guaranteed by the federal government ahead of schedule. The Lufthansa Group will in future secure financing via the capital market, as the company announced on Thursday. Actually, this would have continued until 2025. This credit line was granted in spring 2020 in connection with the corona pandemic, which caused major problems for air traffic.

Die Banken gewährten der Swiss und Edelweiss eine Kreditlinie im Umfang von maximal 1,5 Milliarden Franken. Dabei verbürgte der Bund 85 Prozent des Ausfallrisikos – also maximal 1,275 Milliarden Franken. Seit Beginn der Pandemie habe die Swiss „nie mehr als die Hälfte des Überbrückungskredits beansprucht und insgesamt 60 Millionen Franken an Zinsen und Gebühren bezahlt“, wie das Unternehmen schreibt.

„Wir sind dem Bund sehr dankbar, dass er zusammen mit den Banken Swiss und Edelweiss während der Corona-Pandemie die benötigte Liquidität zur Verfügung gestellt hat. Dadurch konnten wir einen Großteil der Arbeitsplätze in der Schweiz und nachhaltig wettbewerbsfähige Kostenstrukturen sichern sowie die Anbindung an die Welt auch während der Pandemie aufrechterhalten. Zudem konnten wir unseren Hub in Zürich im Einklang mit den anderen Drehkreuzen der Lufthansa Group hochfahren und unser Flugangebot proportional entwickeln“, so Swiss-CEO Dieter Vranckx.

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