Private investor test: The General Court of the European Union approves the application of the private investor test to relations between airports and airlines (Ryanair, TUIfly a. o.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 29 September 2021, the General Court of the Union delivered two judgments in the State aid cases T-447/18 (TUIfly GmbH v European Commission) and T-448/18 (Ryanair and others v European Commission) concerning measures granted by Austria to Klagenfurt airport, as well as to Ryanair, TUIfly and other airlines using it. In those cases, the applicants asked the Court to annul the decision of 11 November 2016by which the Commission, while authorising aid to the Austrian airport of Klagenfurt itself, ordered the recovery of incompatible aid from Ryanair and Tuifly arising from several bilateral agreements concluded between the airport operator and each