The German carrier took its case to the Luxembourg-based General Court after EU antitrust regulators in 2014 gave the green light to a series of support measures for the airport, which is 82.5-percent owned by China’s HNA Group with the rest held by the German state of Hesse.
The German airline argued that many of the benefits of the aid were passed on to Ryanair, which was not paying high enough airport charges. But Europe’s second-highest court said that Lufthansa had failed to show it took a financial hit or lost market share as result of the measures.
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