Leatherboy,
I am still waiting for a pic!!
Lufthansa is not government owned any longer and it is theoretically against EU rules to subsidise any airline (although Alitalia and Olympic seem to be able to get away with it!!). In fact, European airlines are more often less subsidised than US ones. For example, Swiss and Sabena were both allowed to go to the wall and they were national carriers. In the US, airlines are protected from going bankrupt by using Chapter 11, sheltered from their liabilities and often have "hidden" subsidies including government travel contracts for example, specifying federal employees must travel on US airlines, although European airlines have no such support.