Airlines
UK Air Transport Braces For No Deal Brexit Consequences
EU/UK air traffic rights are set to continue through October 2020, but there is still serious uncertainty what a No Deal Brexit means for air transport.
British Airways, along with all UK airlines, faces significant uncertainty as to how a No Deal Brexit could impact its ability to operate into the remaining 27 European Union states. (Photo: British Airways)
British Airways, along with all UK airlines, faces significant uncertainty as to how a No Deal Brexit could impact its ability to operate into the remaining 27 European Union states. (Photo: British Airways)

The prospect of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) on October 31 without a deal on future relations now appears to be the working assumption of the country’s air transport industry, and it is not a prospect it relishes with less than 50 days to complete preparations. The UK industry’s morale has not been improved this week by the publication of the government’s “reasonable worst-case planning assumptions” for the so-called No Deal Brexit (see below).