Since several months the government of the United Kingdom and the European Commission are negotiating Brexit, meaning – for the first time in history – a country using Article 50 and leaving the EU. After the first rounds and rather general debates, we have now entered the phase, where the details are thrown at the negotiating table. For many of today’s EU citizens these details are far away. For aviation & its employees they are becoming a shocking reality.
Just a few days after UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK is exploring the options of staying in EASA after Brexit, the European Commission took a rather radical approach. In a note, UK pilots were advised to get in contact with their national authorities because their European pilot licenses might lose their validity soon.
