With Brexit planned for little over a year
away, BACA - The Air Charter Association notes the British Prime Minister's
statement on the UK's membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
BACA, which is the global trade body
representing the interests of a number of companies in the Air Charter industry,
welcomes further clarity on the operational effect of Brexit on passenger and
cargo airlines and business jet operators.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May, in her speech
at Mansion House in the City of London on Friday, March 2, 2018 stated that "We
will also want to explore with the EU, the terms on which the UK could remain
part of EU agencies, such as those that are critical for the chemicals,
medicines and aerospace industries: the European Medicines Agency, the European
Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and the European Aviation Safety Agency,"
Richard Mumford,
BACA Chairman, said: "BACA's members include a number of UK-based Passenger and
Cargo Airlines and Business Jet Operators and in order to ensure they are able
to continue to compete on the international stage, much-needed clarity on how
the UK's aviation industry is likely to function post-Brexit is welcomed.
"However, with little more than a year to go, it is imperative that aviation, a
market that works seasonally, receives defined clarity to allow it to plan for
the future.
"In addition, our European members demand more
certainty on the impact on EASA of the UK's exit from the European Union."
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BACA Chairman Richard Mumford |
"As an industry, aviation has continually
sought to remove barriers which prevent our ability to trade, whether they be in
the form of Freedoms of the Air, or in terms of regulatory alignment across
regions, such as that envisaged by the creation of EASA."
"The continent of Europe has worked together
for many decades to build a common approach to aviation and an aviation market
that seeks to maximise close co-operation and the freedom to fly over all
European airspace. Ideally that should be preserved."
"With just over a year to go until the UK
exits the European Union, it is imperative that our industry has as close to a
global set of regulations as is possible, and so continued membership of EASA
would help with that goal"
"The Air Charter industry generates employment
for many people across the UK and Europe, generates many millions of investment
into the economies of the region and, most importantly, provides the ability for
millions of people and many tonnes of vital cargo, to move seamlessly and easily
by air throughout the region. In the interests of our members, the travelling
public and cargo markets, It is vital that this is allowed to continue."
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