26 March 2023
TUI Group confirmed it will launch a capital raising to fund repayment of the Covid loan it received from the German government.
It plans to use proceeds to repay the Covid loan in full and to ‘significantly reduce’ the KfW state bank credit line.
TUI is looking to raise about €1.8 billion in the share issue.
TUI received a total of €4.3 billion state aid during the pandemic with about €2.6 billion outstanding to be repaid.
It received €2.1 billion credit line from KfW which TUI hopes to reduce by nearly half.
