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Brexit DOOM™: No flight zone
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostYes but all the usual Ryanair customers will be sitting next to you on your posh airline.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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There are nine freedoms:
1) The right to overfly someone else's airspace
2) The right to do technical things (e.g. refuel or maintain) in another country without passengers or cargo getting on or off
3) The right for an airline based in country A to fly from country A to country B
4) The right for an airline based in country A to fly from country B back to country A
5) The right for an airline based in country A to fly to/from country A to country B and then to country C (think BA flying London - Singapore - Sydney)
6) The right for an airline based in country A to fly from B to A to C (e.g. Emirates flying London to Dubai to Sydney, whilst allowing passengers to be ticketed from London to Sydney)
7) The right for an airline based in country A to fly from B to C (e.g. Easyjet operating a flight from Paris to Moscow)
8) The right for an airline based in country A to fly to country B and then onwards to another airport in B, thus allowing an airline to operate a domestic sector in a foreign country.
9) The right for an airline based in country A to fly a domestic flight in country B without an onward flight back to their own country (slightly different to 8).
As it stands, for the most part, the EU is 'one country'. An airline based anywhere in the EU can fly from anywhere in the EU to anywhere else in the EU (think Ryanair flying from Stansted to Amsterdam).
Given the EU - US open skies agreement, an EU airline can fly from elsewhere in the EU to outside the EU - think Norwegian flying from London to USA.
After Brexit it is inconceivable that we wont allow EU airlines to fly into the UK, and that UK airlines wont be allowed to fly to the EU. What may not be allowed is for an EU airline to fly from the UK to the USA. And a UK airline may not be allowed to fly within the EU (only UK to EU) or from EU to outside the EU (Easyjet to fly from inside the EU Common Aviation Area to somewhere else outside the ECAA).
But then there is another pitfall. The rights for UK airlines to fly UK to USA is currently covered by the EU-US open skies agreement. After Brexit, without a deal, then BA or Virgin may not be able to fly UK - US until a new UK-US bilateral agreement is in place. This is a far more 'real' issue than Ryanair flying from the UK to the EU (on the basis that it is an EU airline).
However, Israel, Jordan and Morocco - all non EU countries - are all part of the ECAA. So it is entirely likely, IMHO, that the UK will remain in the European Common Aviation Area and therefore nothing will change. Ryanair will still operate UK flights. BA (a subsidiary of IAG, a Spanish company) can still operate domestic UK flights and flights from UK to outside the ECAA.
It would be painful any other way. We probably don't want to revert back to Bermuda II rules (the one which regulates only 2 UK and 2 US airlines can fly between Heathrow or Gatwick and the USA and only to certain airports) which existed before the EU-US open skies agreement.
I think there are still some UK specific bilateral agreements with other nations.Taking a break from contractingComment
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