A top safety regulator at the CAA told the Guardian: "The time is rapidly approaching when we need to look at what is meant by 'substantially established' in the UK in a legal sense."
Regulation in the UK would allow the CAA to oversee Ryanair's crew training, maintenance, aircraft design and the robustness of its finances. It would give the CAA the power to investigate allegations of the kind raised by undercover reporters in a recent Channel Four Dispatches documentary which questioned the quality of Ryanair's training and the competence of security checks at departure gates.
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