In a letter addressed to the employees, the company, placed in receivership, indicates that "the search for buyers continues actively".

The French airline Aigle Azur, specialist destinations to Algeria and placed in receivership, announced the cancellation of all flights from Friday evening, in an internal document that AFP had access Thursday. "The financial situation of the company and the resulting operational difficulties do not make it possible to ensure the flights beyond the evening of September 6", specifies this document.

The letter to the company's employees also states that "the search for buyers continues actively, it continues during the stopping of flights" and "offers of resumption can be filed until Monday, September 9 at noon", while a works council will be held the same day.

The routes to Mali, Brazil and Portugal had already been suspended

The suspension of the flights is presented in this mail as a "regrettable alternative which puts its customers, its teams and its partners in the greatest difficulty" but to which "Aigle Azur is forced to resort". Earlier Thursday, the airline had already suspended its connections to Mali, Brazil and Portugal, after having canceled Wednesday a flight Paris Orly-Bamako and another Alger-Toulouse Tuesday.

Aigle Azur has 1,150 employees, including 350 in Algeria. The company has a fleet of 11 aircraft and transported 1.88 million passengers in 2018, during which time it generated a turnover of 300 million euros.