There are currently thirteen thousand travelers stuck in various countries overseas as a result of French airline Aigle Azur going bankrupt.

The airline filed for bankruptcy last year and decided to cancel all their flights on Friday night.

According to France’s secretary of state for transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, 11,000 people are stranded in Algeria.

“There are 13,000 passengers who bought their tickets and will need to be repatriated. Among them, 11,000 are in Algeria, six in Mali, then in Lebanon, in Moscow and in Senegal,” says Djebbari on Monday in an interview with French TV channel RMC.

He also states that the airline’s bankruptcy has affected 1,150 of its employees in addition to the thousands of stranded passengers.

Unfortunately, the stranded passengers will have to wait weeks before their situation is sorted.

“We think that over the course of three weeks we will have dealt with most of the passenger flow,” says Djebbari.

Here are what passengers took to Twitter to say:

#AigleAzur removed their contact forms, and no one is answering from Customer service! pic.twitter.com/dfyejdr77Q
— Elia Kallas (@Eliakallas) September 5, 2019

Bought two tickets to France last month, scheduled for 21 sept… who s going to pay me back??? #AigleAzur https://t.co/8HFPBd1o06
— Elie Bassil (@eliebassil7) September 5, 2019

🇱🇧🇫🇷 Yesterday, I received a phone call from my travel agency stating that I urgently need to book another flight to #Paris on 28 Sep since #AigleAzur will stop all of its fights starting 6 Sep.

Aigle Azur is filed for bankruptcy and was placed in receivership on 2 Sep. 2019.
— Sharbel Faraj (@sharbelfaraj) September 6, 2019

Nothing throws a vacation into chaos quite like hearing your airline carrier has filed for bankruptcy 😷 #AigleAzur
— Justin Meneguzzi (@JustinMeneguzzi) September 4, 2019

5 airline tickets gone to waste #AigleAzur
— samir sleem (@samirsleem) September 5, 2019

In the past year, Aigle Azur has carried 1.9 million passengers. The airline is the second-largest airline in France.

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