Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Well no, the bilaterals would be the same as before open skies started ie. they can nominate an airline for a route to the UK, (most likely the national airline), and the UK could do the same.
I suggest you have a look at how a bilateral agreement worked before Open Skies, which took 10 years to negotiate. Our aviation industry is in a much better place now than it was before Open Skies. The risk is that benefits the UK aviation industry now enjoys will be lost. That includes the probability of jobs, of not just pilots, but all those that work in the industry.