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Air France-KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline. Air France was founded in 1933 and KLM in 1919. The two airlines merged in 2004. Both have had major accidents: A KLM crash in Tenerife, Spain, in 1977 recorded the highest number of casualties in history when it crashed into a Pan Am plane on take-off killing 583. An Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed in the Atlantic Ocean killing 228 people on board in June 2009.

Airbus is a major airline and military aircraft manufacturer that was created in 1970 to compete with Boeing with the help of generous subsidies from the British, French, German, and Spanish governments. The company has been investigated over corruption in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. In 2020 the company paid out $4 billion to prosecutors in France, the United States and the United Kingdom to drop investigations and lawsuits into alleged bribery payments.

Alloheim is Germany’s second-largest operator of nursing homes with almost 250 facilities across the country. Founded in 1973 as a small family-owned nursing home in Bad Marienberg, it was acquired by Nordic Capital in 2019, a private equity group which seeks to profit out of the healthcare industry. During the Covid-19 pandemic, several Alloheim nursing homes became hotspots of virus outbreaks. Families of residents repeatedly complained about the lack of hygiene conditions and understaffing. In one case, the Ministry of Health in the district of Kiel, in the north of Germany, intervened in the Alloheim residence in Bredstedt due to the reports of “serious quality deficiencies”. The Ministry admitted that there had been several inspections of the Alloheim Bredstedt care home and one of the major issues they found was the lack of staff.