Air France-KLM posted a loss of €7.1 billion in 2020 and received €10.4 billion in state loans and guarantees. At the height of the pandemic, Lufthansa was losing €1 million every hour.; it received €9 billion in government aid. But Wizz Air posted a €576 million loss between March 2020 and March 2021. Ryanair lost €815 million during the same period — and is challenging airline bailout packages in court. Alitalia lost €430 million in the first half of 2020, when the COVID crisis was at its harshest. In fact, low cost carriers have picked up many of the airport slots that Alitalia was forced to relinquish. "We opened a base in Venice Treviso, we had just announced the base in Turin. We put three extra aircraft into Rome Fiumicino, we put extra aircraft into Naples, Bologna, various other places around Italy," Ryanair executive Eddie Wilson said at a Centre for Aviation conference on July 14.