After Aigle Azur, XL Airways is the second French company to declare itself in cessation of payment in three weeks. Its CEO, Laurent Magnin requests the placement of the company in receivership and launches Europe 1 a call for help to the President of the Republic.

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In the impasse, XL Airways is on the brink of rupture. The company, which owes 35 million euros, declared itself in default of payment, and hopes a placement in receivership. The fault according to Laurent Magnin, CEO of XL Airways, "2 years extremely difficult on a competitive level, with companies coming from everywhere and who have returned full force in the French companies."

A call to Emmanuel Macron

Guest of Nathalie Levy's Grand Journal du Soir, Laurent Magnin challenges the President of the Republic. "I'm going to tell him something to Emmanuel Macron, it's not the French government that is a problem for the French air force, it's 50 years of the Minister of Transport appointed to look after the SNCF. to focus on one means of transport, as the transport ministers have been doing for 50 years, we have to look at the air, and when we move on to airplane construction, we made Airbus and we became the world's number one. " And the CEO of XL Airways to increase, "We are the first tourist country in the world and we are lagging in Europe in terms of the flag and its power.This is unacceptable!".

The wish for a better redistribution of wealth

Laurent Magnin has alerted the public authorities about the problems of his company. The CEO warned that this "would end in a disaster". But for him, the problem is deeper. "What is at stake is the way we approach the air, the non-sharing of wealth around the airports." The air returns money to everyone except the French airlines. money is made to buy planes and thwart the attack of our foreign competitors, to socialize, to develop the careers of the people in the French airlines, and that is in regression ".

Canceled flights and tickets probably not reimbursed

In a speech "without language of wood", Laurent Magnin was anxious to explain why his company would have a hard time paying the customers whose flights will not be insured. "It's not XL Airways or Aigle Azur the problem, it's the system and it probably needs to be exploded," he said at the microphone of Europe 1. "The 32 airlines that disappeared in Europe in the last thirty years have planted their customers.For a simple reason: we get paid in advance, and when we start having financial problems, the cash of the tickets paid in advance keeps the company going. has the hope to hold until the last moment and find a solution. "