Hysteria over Varadkar aviation comments doesn’t fly
Taoiseach’s warning repeated by Aviation Authority and European Commission
If there is a no-deal Brexit, Britain will leave the EU and all its accompanying regulations and treaties, including in the area of air travel. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/ Bloomberg
For many in the aviation industry and in Europe, the Taoiseach’s comment that UK planes “would not fly” in the event of a no-deal Brexit was nothing more than a statement of fact.
“The situation at the moment is that the United Kingdom is part of the single European sky, and if they leave the EU they are not, and that does mean that if there was a no-deal, hard Brexit next March, the planes would not fly and Britain would be an island in many ways and that is something that they need to think about,” Leo Varadkar said in Kerry three days ago.