A good point SNR although the CAA said all along in its updates that it would recognise EASA licences and expected the EU to reciprocate. I guess what the EU said was "no, we can't do that if you go full on hard/no deal as you will have chosen third country status and we could not give you a better deal compared to other third countries". As a compromise though, we could look at special fudge agreements to sort of mirror EASA without being totally in it. Once it was clear that Frost had been sent on a mission to disrupt and waste time right up until the line and effectively force a crash out with only a bare bones deal, the EU probably said
it, we will get back to you some time in the future about licencing when we have time. In the meantime, HMG managed to sign up to an aviation safety agreement within the TCA which allowed foreign airlines to operate as many non UK registered aircraft as they liked out of the UK so long as they didn't do domestic. Genius
. How long will it be before UK airlines realise that there may be benefits in moving parts of their fleet offshore and continuing to use subsidiaries shell companies?