No more cost sharing flights?

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https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33...dvertising.pdf

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Our proposed changes to the advertising element of the regulation are as follows: (please note this is not actual regulation wording, but the CAA’s proposal to the DfT. The DfT are responsible for drafting the actual regulation wording).

Cost sharing flights may be advertised. The advertisement must be placed by the pilot intending to operate the flight and it must relate to a specific flight that the pilot intends to take place, regardless of whether passengers are available for carriage. The advertisement must include the start and end locations, as well as the dates when the pilot intends to conduct the flight.

3.2 These changes will not make online advertising or flight sharing platforms unlawful as pilots will still be able to advertise their flights for cost sharing purposes. In addition, there will be no limit on the number of times a pilot can legitimately advertise. However, what we seek to address is patterns of behaviour which suggest that cost sharing rules are being abused and those who are ‘holding themselves out’ as a commercial air transport service.

3.2 These changes will not make online advertising or flight sharing platforms unlawful as pilots will still be able to advertise their flights for cost sharing purposes. In addition, there will be no limit on the number of times a pilot can legitimately advertise. However, what we seek to address is patterns of behaviour which suggest that cost sharing rules are being abused and those who are ‘holding themselves out’ as a commercial air transport service.

3.9 However, flights that are advertised that would clearly not take place without a paying passenger such as: (i) flights to multiple destinations on the same day all departing the same airport; or (ii) flights advertised every day repeatedly, and which regularly do not take place; may result in the CAA exploring the circumstances with the pilot.