Abstract

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, most - if not all - EU airlines have faced immense financial difficulties due to the sharp fall in air travel demand. The EU responded to the pandemic and its financial implications by implementing a series of regulatory measures, which amend the common State aid EU legal regime. The paper intends to provide a dynamic snapshot of State aid to airlines in the European Union during such an unprecedented crisis. This situation, in fact, has made it necessary for the Union to rethink the EU competition law regime and to provide a new temporary framework, which ...