Originally Posted by
WHBM
Can someone explain why Primera Nordic was allowed to re-register a substantial airline under Latvian CAA oversight, when it wasn't owned there, it's top management didnt come from there, it didn't operate there, and as far as I can tell its aircraft were never seen there. Oh, and it's name implied it came from some other countries to the west.
At the risk of opening wounds, which I don't mean to do as we have a different thread for exactly this topic, I think it is entirely to do with how EASA has been set up and sits above individual EU members' own CAAs. It seems Latvian CAA oversight is considered good enough but UK CAA oversight will not be. Strange but true....
Think Easyjet and their new set up in Vienna - more or less the same thing although they do operate into and out of Vienna, I suppose.