1/ Thread. Lets talk about aviation and Brexit . There is an excellent thread on the Property Pin website on Brexit. See thepropertypin.com/viewtopic.php?…
2/ One exceptional post , from which I have lifted and extracted discusses aviation post brexit. In light of the @campaignforleo comments and the usual temperate response of the S*N and so on, here we go. Quotes on....
3/ Chicago convention on freedoms of Air Travel. This is a treaty that dates from the forties. This means that neither the EU nor the UK can prevent the other from traveling in each other's...air space.
4/ All nations have the right to make flights across another state's territories and to make stops without obtaining prior permission. To prevent another nation from operating flights in your air space is an act of war. Not rhetorical war, actual war.
5/ Based on this one can say that air travel will have a legal basis to continue after Brexit, right?
6/ Well here is where it starts to fall apart. There is no such thing as unconstrained freedom. All rights are limited. Saying that yes, ok, you have a right to fly planes through our air space does not mean that one can fly any plane at all flown by any old clown.
7/ All pilots and all air frames that fly in the EU airspace must be certified as trained and airworthy by the relevant part of the EU, the European Aviation and Safety Agency, the EASA. All Pilot's licenses are issued under the umbrella of the EASA.
8/ All aviation maintenance worker are certified as qualified by the EASA. No one even so much as changes a light bulb on an airplane without being certified as being qualified to do so by the EASA. Once Brexit happens no British Pilots have a license to fly anymore.
9/ No maintenance staff are qualified to do routine work. No planes are certified as air worth. They all expire on date of Brexit.
10/ No licenses or air worth certificates means that planes can not fly. There are many different legal reasons why planes can't fly. It has nothing to do with retaliation or any crap like that. Airlines and insurance companies simply can not allow them to fly.
11/ Can you imagine what would happen in the scenario that there was an air crash and the plane or pilot didn't have a license?
12/ Then there is a little known about agency called Eurocontrol. It's not little, it's actually massive but largely unknown. Eurocontrol predates the entire European project and manages air traffic control throughout continental Europe.
13/ Without EU membership British access to Eurocontrol goes into a legal quagmire. The UK de-facto no longer has access to Eurocontrol.
14/ This means it is not clear if British airplanes will be able to route international flights through Eurocontrol's air traffic control.
15/ Then there is international flights to the US for example. EASA has a cross agreement with America about standards. After Brexit these cross agreements come to an end and need to be replaced with something else. There is nothing else to fall back on.
16/ Brexit means that all of the legal infrastructure comes to an end. There are those that think the EU will cave in at the last minute and allow access to air space. It doesn't work like that, there is no legal frame work to do so.
17/ Quotes off. It strikes me that this is a nice succinct summary of the issue. Thoughts?
