So let’s look at Easyjet and if they need state aid. Who should provide it and why? Much of their fleet is on the Austrian register. Most of their routes are between EU nations and don’t touch the UK. Is it down to the UK to keep the EU connected and keep EU citizens employed?
Same applies to Ryanair who has moved much of their fleet off the Irish register and only a small proportion of their services touch the republic. Not even sure if any heavy engineering is done in Ireland so we could just be talking about their HQ that is Irish based so how many jobs is that then?