The French subsidiary of Ireland’s CityJet (WX, Dublin International) has been placed into liquidation in the latest blow to the struggling wet-lease carrier, which has already seen other subsidiaries go bankrupt.

France’s Bobigny commercial court on May 28 ordered the liquidation of CityJet’s French branch, resulting in the loss of approximately 80 jobs, Agence France Presse reported court documents as showing.

The Dutch subsidiary of CityJet was declared bankrupt by the Netherlands Central Insolvency Register Judiciary (de Rechtspraak) on May 6 after the parent company announced in April that it could no longer pay the wages of the 35 pilots who worked for the company’s Dutch arm, CityJet BV.

At around the same time in early May, CityJet announced it was closing its Brussels national base, laying off 90 employees at the airport, as a direct result of the cancellation of its contract with Brussels Airlines (SN, Brussels National).

On April 21 CityJet’s companies in Sweden (CityJet Sweden AB) and Finland (CityJet Oy) filed for bankruptcy, pushing 100 staff into unemployment. CityJet had been a wet-lease operator for Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin International) but its contract was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. An ACMI contract with SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) has since been reactivated with CRJ900-operated flights between Copenhagen Kastrup and Aalborg resuming earlier this month.

These moves follow CityJet’s own entry into examinership, a legal process in Ireland which allows distressed firms to restructure their business and debts albeit under a court-approved administrator. CityJet filed for bankruptcy protection on April 17.

The CityJet Group had some 1,175 employees before the coronavirus pandemic, with 410 at Dublin International. Local subsidiaries have employed the rest at bases at Amsterdam Schiphol, Brussels National, Copenhagen Kastrup, Helsinki Vantaa, London City, Paris CDG, Stockholm Arlanda, Tallinn Lennart Meri, and Vilnius airports, according to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module.

CityJet in late May told unions that up to 276 people at its Irish and UK operations and 400 to 450 across Europe would be laid off as most of the airline’s customer carriers cancelled their contracts in March.