Adria Airways (Ljubljana) and airBaltic (BT, Riga) will both be faced with an investigation the European Commission has launched on November 20 to review if capital increases and loans provided by the Slovenian and Latvian governments between 2007 and 2011 can be considered as legal state aid under European Union legislation. The Commission will now check if private investors would have possibly made similar decisions in such situations. The European Commission can order the financially struggling airlines to pay back the state aid received if it considers the payments from the governments to the national carriers as illegal. It has previously done so in the cases of Malev (Budapest) and Spanair (Barcelona El Prat).