Employees “full of hope” after the liquidation of the company Air Antilles

2023-08-03 09:24:07

Employees who are jubilant at the announcement of the liquidation of their company: the strike which has paralyzed the companies Air Antilles and Air Guyane since July 14 will have had an unusual outcome to say the least. On Wednesday August 2, at the end of a morning hearing, the mixed commercial court of Pointe-à-Pitre ordered by deliberation, in the evening, the judicial liquidation with continuation of activity of the group Caire (Airline company inter régionale express), owner of the two sister companies. The regional carrier, which serves around twenty destinations in the Caribbean archipelago as well as in Guyana, has two months to find a buyer.

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“It is a great satisfaction for usrejoices Brieuc Hardy, the delegate of the National Union of Airline Pilots (SNPL) within the Cairo group. The employees are full of hope this evening. » Two judicial administrators should be appointed by the magistrates, who ruled on a declaration of cessation of payments filed on July 26 by Eric Koury, the CEO of this company with 300 employees, just before the start of mediation under the aegis the secretary general for regional affairs to the prefect of the Guadeloupe region.

Started in a climate of distrust, when other unions joined the strike, the attempt at conciliation did not succeed. “We must acknowledge the failure of mediation”regretted SNPL Cairo in a press release on Monday 1^is August, following four fruitless meetings with management and the state-appointed mediator.

2,500 passengers stranded

Among their many demands, the unions of pilots and cabin crew demanded in particular wage increases. Impossible, according to the manager, who deplored, following Wednesday’s hearing at the Pointe-à-Pitre courthouse, that his restructuring plan be “obviously fell through with this strike decision”.

The same morning, the striking unions had, despite the failure of the negotiations, called for an end to the movement, in order to put all the chances on their side as to a possible continuation of the activity of their company. “A very good decision, if only for all our compatriots who are stranded in the Caribbean”, greeted Mr. Koury, referring to the 2,500 Guadeloupe and Martinican passengers awaiting repatriation from neighboring islands. In Guyana, the cessation of services forced the local authority to organize an airlift to supply landlocked Amazonian municipalities by helicopter.

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