Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Why would it be different to RYR, have they get some sort of dispensation? And RYR have opened UK bases since Brexit.
I believe they got dispensation and were treated as an exception but ISTBC. There would have been one helluva cost into putting whole UK fleet onto the new UK AOC, that being said, easyJet had to do exactly that to non UK bases which went to a new Austrian AOC. The UK chose to allow Ryanair to remain based in the UK with an EU AOC, the EU did not reciprocate, (why would they?) Ryanair UK exists only for UK domestic and UK to non EU. SAS Connect also have a similar legacy base at LHR.