The commercial court of Pointe-à-Pitre examined on Thursday three takeover offers from the Caire group, owner of the airlines Air Antilles and Air Guyane, which was put into compulsory liquidation on August 2. In mid-July, a strike by pilots of the Interregional Express Airline (Cairo), which operates the two subsidiaries with around 300 employees, brought to the fore the difficulties of the group, which has stopped paying since July 26 at the request of its general director. Eric Koury.
At the end of the hearing, the Pointe-à-Pitre commercial court accepted two takeover offers from the group on Thursday. These are the offers of the Cafom group, a furniture specialist (whose shareholder is common to the Caire group), which proposes a global acquisition, with 194 of its 296 employees; and that of Cipim (holding of the Edeis group, manager of 16 airports) and that of the community of Saint-Martin, which refers only to the Antilles area, with 120 of the 218 employees in this area.
A third offer rejected
The third offer, from Guyane Fly, proposed the acquisition of the Guyanese perimeter (and its 78 employees), on which the airline Air Guyane has a public service delegation, essential to serve very isolated areas. However, she was “automatically dismissed”, according to Ilan Muntlak, lawyer for the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) of the Caire group.
On the other hand, regarding Cafom, everyone gave a negative opinion,” explained Ilan Muntlak. According to an opinion given on the eve of the hearing by the members of the CSE, Cafom intends to “follow in the footsteps of the” former directors of El Cairo”, including the current general director, highly questioned by employees, considering that social dialogue and management are harmful.
The sentence was reserved until September 29.
Source: BFM TV
