Originally Posted by
ayroplain
LOL. Whatever else MOL might be considered to be, anyone who refers to him as a "nobody" has no credibility on this Forum.
I think you'll find that W.Walsh and the others know the critical situation that pertains at this moment in time and it is in line with what MOL says. However, they are, typically, holding back and allowing MOL to do their shouting for them. If nothing continues to happen things will start to hot up fairly quickly.
I think you'll start to hear the other airline heads get a bit more vocal when it's 18 months to go for winter 18/19 schedules which is when a lot draft, but maybe not quite fix their forward schedules. There were a handful of bilateral agreements with some of the EU27 countries that pre-existed the current rules, but not with all 27. A few major accounting companies like the Ernst and Youngs of this world have dug into this in some depth and suggest that there is a massive amount of work to be done to resolve. Entirely separate negotiations to anything else going on in Brexit-world. The fear is that the UK government will use access to UK market for aviation as a bargaining chip in their armory of 'bargaining chips' and therefore what we end up with will be unresolved and unclear until the 11th hour and 59th minute, at best.