Germany's Hahn airport needs government funding to avoid insolvency, a shareholder representative was quoted as saying on Wednesday, as falling passenger numbers exacerbate losses. Jochen Riebel, a former local secretary of state who represents minority shareholder Hesse on the airport's board, said Hahn would use up all its cash within about six months without more finance.
Passenger numbers at Hahn, a former military base 100 km from Frankfurt used mainly by budget carrier Ryanair, fell 8 percent in the first half of 2012 as a German airport tax pushed flyers to cheaper airports in neighbouring Netherlands. Riebel told the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that Rhineland-Palatinate state, the majority owner of Hahn, could not afford another high-profile insolvency like that of the Nuergburgring race track. "The equity capital will be used up in March 2013 and then management would have to file for insolvency," Riebel was quoted as saying.
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