The Competition Authority conducted searches last Thursday at Air Caribbean and the Interregional Express Airline (CAIRE), which oversees Air Guyane Express and Air Antilles Express, for suspicions of anti-competitive practices in the transportation of passengers, according to concordant sources.
Air Caraïbes announced last Friday that it had been the subject of a search "within the framework of an investigation into its tariff positioning on its regional network", and affirmed to collaborate "entirely with the services concerned".
A search also took place at the Interregional Express Air Company (Cairo), which oversees Air Guyane Express and Air Antilles Express. It was announced to AFP by the director general of the company, Serge Tsygalnitzky. The search took place in French Guiana, at the company's head office, but "no service in French Guiana is concerned by the controls", he assured.
The Competition Authority has for its part announced "unexpected visits and seizures" in companies suspected of "anti-competitive practices in the air transport sector of inter-island passengers", carried out Thursday in Guadeloupe and Guyana .
These operations were carried out with the assistance of the repression of fraud, after authorization by a liberty and detention judge (JLD).
They do not "obviously prejudge the guilt of the companies concerned", said the Competition Authority in a press release, without specifying the practices and companies concerned.
At the CAIRE company, the rotations that have been controlled are those of "the entire network, particularly Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France," said Tsygalnitzky.
At Air Caraibes, it was specified in a press release that the current procedure does not affect "the smooth running of flights operated by Air Caraibes in the Antilles both regionally and from and to the Metropolis".
The company serves on its regional network (from Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin Grand-Case, Saint Lucia and The Dominican Republic.
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