Originally Posted by
Flightrider
There is a factor being overlooked here, which is around crew licensing and right to live and work.
Yes, Jet2 could base a couple of aircraft in Alicante or Palma or wherever. If they were UK-registered aircraft, they would need (post-Brexit) to be flown by pilots with UK and not EASA licences. Although there are quite a lot of pilots with the right to live and work in the UK who hold an EASA licence (so fine for Ryanair STN, LPL bases etc) then there are far fewer who have the right to live and work in Europe but hold a UK CAA licence. You'd therefore have a fairly big issue matching your UK aircraft based in ALC/PMI/wherever with UK-licensed crews who have the right to live and work to be based at the same places.
If they were keen to do it, one option may be to base some of the European ACMI aircraft in such a location. But putting their own aircraft may be much more problematic.
this isn’t necessarily true - they have a TFS base in the winter which is fully crewed, on UK registered aircraft and mostly crewed by ex PMI / ALC based crew who stay in TFS along with other UK Crew. They also have a few hundred cabin crew who all hold EASA licenses to operate on non uk reg aircraft. I.e leases