B61, CAE Oxford have been under Danish ATO approval for years (and the Oslo and Antwerp sites as well), it was nothing to do with Brexit, they haven't held a UK GBR approval for some time. Students were told to transfer to DK because of the fact Oxford only had a DK ATO approval and didn't have the UK GBR approval. Alhough EASA ATOs can still teach for UK Part FCL for two years if the ATO was in place on the 31/12/2020, so it is questionable if the transfer to DK was required?
Infact they have left some UK students high and dry with EASA licenses issued after Brexit with out access to the easy converison to Part UK FCL. No one at CAE management can have read the SI that the UK CAA issued in September 2020 judging by the incorrect advice UK students received.
There was a large transfer of Instructors and ops staff to leading edge.
Prior to Covid there were indeed students sub contracted out to Brno and Airways, however not sure what the situation is on that. There had been large delays at Oxford with students taking on average 2.5 years to complete rather than 18 months recently.
I think they still have the C182s doing single engine phase training at Oxford, alot of the senecas were transferred to Oslo and Brussels. I can't see much of a future for the Oxford site, although the Oxford name is used around the world (OxfordSaudi for example) so it may be the case CAE need to keep it artificially (small subsidised opearation) open for the name.
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