Originally Posted by
PDXCWL45
It's called the free market. Also Norwegian have an UK AOC so they are a UK airline and what they are doing is no different to Easyjet in the EU.
It is actually closer to what Easyjet will be doing in the UK. EasyJet corporate is in the process of becoming majority EU and not UK owners (by changing a shareholder's declaration). From that point EasyJet UK will be in the same boat as Norwegian Longhaul UK, BA, TUI UK, and VS. They are all going to be majority owned by non UK entities, most of them by EU shareholders. I can imagine that TCX will end up that way to preserve Condor (or they will have to divest a portion of it).
Of course there is the issue that a number of countries may prohibit UK registered aircraft and crew from flying after March 2019 as the CAA does not, currently, have the authority or expertise to maintain airworthiness as they surrendered that ability to EASA in the past. Of course there are a number of deals that could be made to prevent this, but no action could be catastrophic. This isn't including the increased regulatory cost that UK carriers will face going forward if the CAA's rules are not harmonised with the US and EU.