A one, and final, shot of 3 Bn euros in 1994.
Not a single penny since 1994 : BA, LH (and Brussels) watch closely.
Is that what you call "recent years".
Subsidy by wire transfer was no longer acceptable. More palatable methods had to be found to appease our masters in Brussels.
What about the thousands of tickets bough by the french government that are never used? A cynic might call that subsidy by other means.
Only 3 bn!?
How are other companies expected to compete with an airline that has it's historical debt wiped?
I'm all for employee rights. What has happened and continues to happen in a supposedly "level playing" that is Europe is just damn sickening.