Originally Posted by
deptrai
Norwegian, currently the third largest loco in Europe, is considering to register it's new Dreamliners in Ireland, "to become more competitive" (which I assume means employing "offshore" crew, at lower salaries and less attractive conditions, avoiding Norwegian labor law).
The entire recent Russian airliner fleet and more than 50% of the Italian one are registered overseas, along with many others. Ireland is a principal place for this but by no means the only one. However in the cases I describe the crews still come from the native country, not significantly from overseas. Its done for different, financial back-office reasons, mainly to do with asset protection by the leasing companies.