it was a year ago that germany's second largest ally at the time amber lynn had to file for bankruptcy bridging loan of one hundred fifty million euros in tax payers cash the german government kept the ailing airline aloft for an x. two months critics of that move soon claims to money was just a subsidy to a bolt out air berlin but now airplane administrators say did no one will be repaid o.b. it slowly. it was a tearful farewell at the end of last october the last air berlin flight took off. the one second largest german airline was history after almost forty years unusually the german government had provided a one hundred fifty million euro credit after the insolvency in august of twenty seventeen to keep the flights going but quickly it seemed it was doing time not to see the air berlin but so that looked tons of had time to pick the best parts for its subsidiaries german and euro wings without having to take over all of their berlin including its personnel and contract. discount airline ryanair expressed an interest in acquiring air berlin routes and employees but just a short whil