In a financial deadlock, Aigle Azur, French airline in receivership, received 14 offers of recovery or marks of interest, which she hoped to see improved. The candidates for the resumption had until Wednesday evening to adjust their offers, said Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
Some are part of a judicial recovery, while others propose to take some of the activity and staff after the liquidation of the company employs some 1,150 people, including 800 in France and 350 in France. Algeria.
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"We position ourselves of course preferably for a recovery," said AFP Loïc Philippot, vice president of SNPL Aigle Azur. "Not everyone ranks the offers in the same way." The cabin crew, hostesses and stewards, and the young co-pilots rely on the Air France offer, while the ground staff very afraid of this offer, "he added.
Air France has confirmed to AFP have submitted an offer, without giving the content. For some unions, it would be clearly insufficient, the group wishing to liquidate the company then carry out a selection process to rehire some of the staff.
Air France's offer deemed more favorable for employees
On the other hand, for SNPNC-FO, this proposal would make it possible to offer "perennial jobs" to the personnel of Aigle Azur, underlines the national union in a communiqué. "The Guérin offer stands out for employees," said AFP a source among employees. The former CEO of Hop! (Air France group) Lionel Guérin proposes to take over all employees, but funding for his project seems less successful, according to internal sources. The government sees its proposal "a good eye", told AFP a source close to the file.
A hearing scheduled next week
Conversely, the unexpected offer of the US fund Cyrus Capital Partners would be very financially solid. The fund "already has a foot in aeronautics", but "they need an industrial project," noted another source among employees with AFP. Among the other candidates, the Dubreuil group, the majority owner of Air Caraïbes, confirmed to AFP to have submitted a partial offer, also being stingy with details.
For its part, Aigle Azur did not wish to comment on the offers. An extraordinary works council of the company will be held Friday to give an opinion on the final proposals, before a hearing at the Commercial Court of Evry, Essonne, next Monday. The court can decide in favor of one of the offers. If so, the company would move towards a liquidation.