EasyJet to transfer 1400 pilots licence from UK to Austria as a precaution to brexit
 

So the chaos has started.
A prominent UK AME told me with regards to UK medicals that there would be EU approval for some of them, if it looks like a Crash Out!
If I understand him right!
For anyone with a UK medical and EU licence I would strongly recommend dobbelchecking ASAP.

This could get crowded and ugly for some.
Lets hope not!

regards
Cpt B

Would their Austrian licences be valid in the UK?

In a no deal scenario most likely not. If you mean that someone with an EU license could fly a G-registered plane. However, of course it would be possible to continue to fly on planes registered in the EASA states. It just would be the same as flying to any other third country out of the EU, depending on individual traffic rights of course, but that is more an operators problem than a crew one.

Well, no.

At the moment the UK is still in EASA and a pilot can hold only one EASA license. UK national licenses (at least for those regulated by EASA) can not exist until the UK leaves the EASA/EU. Once left, the pilots are ICAO licensed in a third country and would have to do the same stuff every third country pilot has to do, which is write the 14 exams and prove their practical experience. Which could include simulator checks for each type they want to have on that license. As usual, that is for a no deal scenario.

In reality, we all know that's not going to happen. There is no prospect that flights between the UK and other countries will cease on March 30 2019.

This is getting stupid. I hold an Australian ATPL and a JAA ATPL and a UAE ATPL.

I could ( now retired thank God)..happily fly to any EU country I wanted to. What will stop a pilot with a UK licence fling into Europe?? it was done without too much trouble before there was an EU. ( And I lived in Europe for 17 years so I have an interest)

We had 70 years of CAA/ARB experience and an organisational structure to handle self regulation. We don't have that capability at the moment as it is all done by EASA. Whether or not the UK CAA can entice experienced people to leave EASA and help run the CAA again remains to be seen, but if they don't start manning up soon it will be a problem. Not just for pilots, Engineers and ATCOs will be in the same boat. As will everything else the CAA used to do.

Well, that is what most hope. But you cannot plan on hope, which is why easyJet apparently works on splitting the big half of its operation in another two parts, making the company basically three separate entities. The already existing part is of course easyJet Switzerland which is already separated from the rest although switzerland is actually an EASA member, but not inside the EU.

Why would UK not be a member of EASA after Brexit? For example, Iceland and Norway are, and they are not members of EU. And almost forgot, Switzerland, too.

All of them are part of European Economic Area (EEA), which means they allow free movement of EEA nationals and respect decisions of ECJ, all of which seems to be a big no-no for the current UK government.

Iceland and Norway are EEA members, Switzerland is not but has an elaborate set of agreements with the EU. What they have in common is that THEY ALL ACCEPT THE SUPREMACY OF THE ECJ IN MATTERS OF INTERPRETING EU AND EASA LAWS AND REGULATIONS. One of the UK Governments red lines is that they REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SUPREMACY OF THE ECJ. Unless they make a significant climbdown, accept that the ECJ is the highest authority in deciding how EASA rules are to be interpreted AND get the EU to agree to have the UK in EASA but not part of the common (aviation) market: only then will your UK-issued licence still be valid to fly EASA-registered aircraft.

P.S. FS beat me to it ;o)