And you don't get it Peter. They won't care because they will say that the person flying a private flight will be the current operator. You can hang your hat on interpreting everything so it won't work and it will be breaching various other bits of legislation such as age discrimination. Most folk can see a well planned highway to stopping the current situation.
And to get them to shift away from that you will have to have a huge court cases which could very easily last years and cost a fortune.
I presume one of the reasons why they have worded it so badly is because they can have plenty of wiggle room and which will take multiple sessions in court. And by the time its all sorted out it would have been far quicker and cheaper to just go local anyway.
And from the oxford english dictionary
operator
Pronunciation: /ˈɒpəreɪtə/
noun
1 [often with modifier] a person who operates equipment or a machine: a radio operator
a person who works at the switchboard of a telephone exchange: calls are made through the operator
2 [usually with modifier] a person or company that runs a business: a tour operator
3 [with adjective] informal a person who acts in a shrewd or manipulative way: her reputation as a cool, clever operator
4 Mathematics a symbol or function denoting an operation (e.g. ×, +).