It’s not an empty threat, says Ryanair over Brexit fears
Ryanair has insisted it is not making empty threats over its fears about European Open Skies following Brexit.
Speaking as chief executive Michael O’Leary’s met with transport secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, it said: "This is not an ’empty threat’, but has been a fact for over a year now.
"A new or alternative option to Open Skies needs to be formulated. To everyone who says ‘it’ll
be fine’, we say, how will it be fine? And when will this solution be available?"
Ryanair wants to put pressure on the Government to strike a deal before September 2018 for the UK aviation industry in light of the Brexit vote.
O’Leary told Tuesday’s BBC Newsnight programme that the alternative would mean no flights to Europe for UK holidaymakers for summer 2019, adding people will have to ‘drive to Scotland or get ferries to Ireland’ instead.
O’Leary said yesterday’s meeting was a ‘very good meeting’.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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