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Old 7th Feb 2019, 16:49
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Originally Posted by brian_dromey
I suspect that in a “No-Deal” situation the UK government would unilaterally grant access to EU airlines to/from the UK, or consider any UK AOC to be sufficient. At lest, until the UK and EU work-out an air services agreement.

How would it serve the interests of the UK to ground the UK operations of flyBe, Virgin, BA and easyJet?
Its not the U.K., they issued in December what regulations would be in the event of the different options, but its deciding the position of airlines which have large U.K. resident shareholders, counted as E.U. residents today, who become non E.U. on the 29th March and folk such as me, who have both European and U.K. residency rights, who have not elected on the share register, our post 29th March position
The E.U. who have always insisted that to be a e.u. airline 50% + one share must be owned by e.u. residents, this is not how we establish ownership in the u.k. Four times last month the E.U. reminded airlines of this rule, stating that IAG was european, Easyjet unknown and Ryanair likely european. and that creative offices set up in Austria etc would not be an acceptable way to claim to be european..
Ryanair this Monday decided to amalgamate the present Irish, U.k. Polish etc companies in to one entity, as a start to resolving the matter.
BA is a spanish company (IAG) its shares issued in London and Madrid and having a world wide resident shareholder base. The e.u. on latest shareholder information ruled IAG a european company and therefore could not fly direct from the u.k. to the States after the transition period. The group could easily become either American owned or U.K. owned with a small shareholders movement.
Flybe routes from the u.k. to europe can continue after the 29th March as long as E.U. residents dont make up over 50% of the shareholding, in the U.K. we dont mind who own's the shares, this makes us so different from both the E.U. and the States where again a company for airline status must be majority American residents owned.
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