Interested buyers have a Friday deadline to submit bids for Air Berlin, Germany's second-largest carrier which has filed for bankruptcy.
It's been a dramatic process so far, with pilots staging an impromptu walkout and allegations of an unfair playing field from other airlines.
Ira Spitzer has more from Berlin.
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