Originally Posted by
Tu.114
The UK is not in the strongest position when it comes to those negotiations unfortunately. The remaining EU countries have less to lose by denying the UK an open skies agreement (and many other things) than the UK has by doing the same. Also, the EU is likely to take a tough stance on the UK "pour encourager les autres": there are separationists in other countries, albeit not on such a large scale as in the UK.
The decision has been made yesterday and as good democrats the Europeans have to accept it. Whatever may happen, I wish the UK all the best and, yes, good luck as well on their new solitary way.
I would think that the UK, should it want to, could be extremely awkward. How about telling EUROCONTROL route charges office that the route charges for airlines from EU countries that do not have a bilateral agreement with UK will be (name a figure) 20 times higher for transit through UK FIR/UIR. That would make transatlantic operations from the EU extremely expensive for those countries that wanted to be difficult.
This is not really the way to go but don't think that if particular countries are going to be awkward UK just has to sit on its hands and take it.