If there's no deal, the UK and the EU will have a year to negotiate a standard bilateral (which will cover most of Jet2's business), or something more liberal if the EU is feeling sensible (I did say "if").

Oddly enough, bilateral traffic rights existed quite satisfactorily in the days before the EU, right up to the level of fifth-freedom.

In the early 1960s Aer Lingus had more fifth-freedoms that any other European carrier, and that from a nation with a population of fewer than three million at the time and little in the way of an economy. Yet they negotiated like pros and got what they wanted.

The UK will remain an attractive destination for European carriers and they will pressure their Governments to pressue the organs of the EU to negotiate bilaterals.

Ah, there's the rub - "they negotiated like Pros."

Spain would be bankrupt within hours without British tourists.

37 flights from the UK to Alicante tomorrow alone, around 5500 pax at an average of 150 punters per aircraft.

And that would bother France and Germany how?

Because a bankrupt Spain would lead to a recession in the EU within the month, well 6 months, or two consecutive quarters to meet the definition of a recession.

Let's not forget Greece falling off the cliff as well without Brits and Cyprus would be in a bit of a mess.

I guess it could be a good time to invest in Turkish holiday developments if you believe the EU would sacrifice the Spanish just to show how nasty they are. Such games would not be tolerated by the Spanish and they would be out of the EU very quickly as well and then the EU Castle would come tumbling down.

Tourism expenditure to Spain stood at 55billion euros (£50billion) in 2016.

“Some 14billion euros (£12.7billion) of that came from the UK – that’s 26 per cent.

“So we are actually the biggest contributor to the Spanish tourist economy.”

The Spanish economy is much more than tourism.

And what of another collapse in the prices of Spanish property? It's effects on already weak banks could bring the whole Euro down

By God Council Van you talk such a lot of rubbish regarding the Spanish economy, I suggest you look at the Spanish car industry, steel and shipbuilding for a start. Typical ignorant Brit thinking the world ends at Dover!

It will - from March 29th onwards.

He probably meant outside of a very prosperous Catalonia where these activities mainly take place. But if their plans for exiting Spain were ever to come to fruition, which is why they don`t want them to go,the rest of Castillian Spain would be relying on Tourism and Agriculture as their main sources of income. Call that what you want.

Second hand B737-800, G-DRTN is finally on it's first revenue service for Jet2 this morning, currently on route to Alicante from Manchester as LS879.

Oddly enough the only 3 member states of the EU I have never visited are the 3 L's, Luxembourg, Lithuanian and Latvia.

I worked in Germany for several years and even Nigeria so I am well aware that the world does not end at the English channel.

Perhaps if you take the time to look in the mirror you will see the ignorant person looking back at yourself, some one who gets so aggressive and has to throw insults because another person has a different opinion to your own.
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Cheer up, it is Christmas after all.

sorry if this is wrong
but is this a Jet 2 subject
and a aviation forum
so why all the politics and european talk
come on we get enough of that on TV
give it a rest and talk about Jet 2
which is the topic of the forum
thank you
Mark