Well said, Blackdog. I wonder about the logic of the Berlin base. If DBA (as a German company) couldn't be integrated due to German employment laws, then how do Ezy plan to staff a base in that nation's capital? I can't see the Germans allowing the base to be staffed wholly by Brits (or Antipodeans, for that matter). Must be either of:
1) Cats out of the bag and they can't recruit enough quality crew in the UK due to the company culture, so they HAVE to put the new aircraft overseas, or;
2) The whole employment law thing is a load of old tosh to cover up baulked negotiations and the refusal of the DBA staff to work for EZY because, again, of company culture.