@Phileas Fogg. You didn't get the case. It's all about "bogus self employment". If you are based in Germany and you live there, you have to pay your tax in Germany. A independent contractor isn't obliged to pay certain social security taxes. So if the court decides that those pilots are not self employed, it will get nasty for them (and BRK). And yes, they should be worried, because we are not talking about "peanuts"