Originally Posted by
Jet Set Willie
Well there aren't any Spanish flight deck positions for a start so it goes to show the quality of the journalism .
Please refrain from commenting if you don't know the subject. There have been flight deck positions in Spain for over ten years, and that hasn't changed until now. Pre-Covid there were over 60 flight deck positions in the bases in ALC/PMI, and at this moment there are still 25 left.
Originally Posted by Red41
I didn’t know they had a non U.K. AOC?
They don't, never have. It is perfectly acceptable (even post-Brexit) to have EU bases with G-registered aircraft, as long as you don't operate intra-EU scheduled flights (cabotage). These overseas bases are/were crewed by EU nationals with UK llicences (or UK crew with grandfather rights to live in Spain). Flight deck and cabin crew combined, we are talking about 50 people.