Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
Hopefully.. but many aren't taking the chance.
Ryanair, Wizz and Norwegian are all flying G Reg UK AOC's for this reason. EasyJet took a lot of the fleet off G Reg to ensure they could maintain their euro flying.
Those moves are more to do with the registered location of assets for taxation and financial reporting reasons moreso than to do with potential changes and/or problems with aviation regulations.
Easyjet's moves, as you've mentioned, are because in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the tariffs that would become due would be astronomical. It makes perfect sense to operate their European flights from a European-based subsidiary for that reason. Ryanair are doing slightly the reverse, in that they have recently established a UK subsidiary which will pay its taxes to the UK Government for any declared UK business activities, as opposed to the current setup where it pays all of its taxes to the Irish Government. Again, I suspect this is a tariff avoidance scheme.