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Austria's Niki

Lufthansa gives up on buying

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Lufthansa drops Niki bid to calm EU concerns over competition.
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Austrian airline Niki faced insolvency and its planes being grounded Wednesday as Lufthansa gave up on plans to buy it from bankrupt Air Berlin in the face of competition concerns from the European Commission.

"Lufthansa informed Air Berlin and its insolvency managers that it will pursue the planned transaction without the purchase of Niki," the airline said in a statement.

Germany's second-largest carrier triggered bankruptcy proceedings in August after losing a cash lifeline from its biggest shareholder Etihad Airways.

Its aircraft were kept aloft by a 150-million-euro emergency loan from the German government while it negotiated the sale of its assets.

Meanwhile, Niki's aircraft have continued to fly as it is not subject to the same bankruptcy conditions as Air Berlin.

Wednesday's decision could pitch the airline into financial turbulence as it loses bridge financing from the German giant.

"We regret the Commission's decision on Niki very much," the German government said in a statement.

"There are no alternative buyers for Niki available at the moment despite all the efforts of the insolvency managers... insolvency and grounding will be the consequence," it added.

Air Berlin said in a statement Tuesday that prospective buyers IAG had withdrawn their interest in Niki, while there was also no workable offer from Thomas Cook, leaving Lufthansa as the group's only option for a sale.

For its part, the Commission said Lufthansa's move was "regrettable" and that withdrawing the bid completely "was not the only possible outcome".

But it added that Lufthansa’s hoped-for buyout of 81 aircraft from Air Berlin's 140-strong fleet plus Niki for 210 million euros ($250 million) takeover had presented "clear risks to Austrian, German and Swiss consumers and to effective competition".

Lufthansa had already offered to give up many of the precious takeoff and landing slots it originally wanted under the deal.

But "the Commission saw this step as unsatisfactory and signalled clearly that it could not allow taking over and integrating Niki into the Eurowings group," Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary, the firm said.

The German group also offered Wednesday to give up further slots belonging to Air Berlin subsidiary LGW.

Brussels "will now limit its review to Lufthansa's proposed acquisition of LGW," the Commission said.

Source: AFP

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