BALPA has been working extremely hard on the issue of flagging out as readers of Airwaves will know.
As Timber has alluded to, the problem is two pieces of legislation.
The first is section 8 of the 1971 Immigration Act which BALPA tried to get amended when the recent Asylum Bill passed through Parliament. Now the OLS has been transferred to the Home Office, we hope that further lobbying will produce results.
The second is EC 2407/92 which covers wet leasing in the EEA and its interpretation. BALPA has been active in Brussels with the ECA in getting the commission to review the regulation and tighten up the wording. This will have to be done soon with the expansion of the common aviation area in Europe.
BALPA is doing the work.