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[email protected] · June 17th 16, 09:38 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 08:03:43 on Fri, 17 Jun
2016, tim... remarked:
I can just see that EU "interference" in the market might make flying
intra-EU fares cheaper [1] (I don't buy it, but it might),

I don't buy it either - along with most other commentators and
several of the airlines involved, I think fares will go up.

but what possible effect can any EU meddling have on flights between
two non-EU countries?

They aren't going to be "meddling" as you put it, but we will be
*removing* ourselves from arrangements the EU have negotiated on our
behalf to facilitate more/cheaper UK-USA flights. We will have to
re-negotiate, and with much less bargaining power are almost certain
to get a worse deal.

Of course some people think that the independence to negotiate these
sorts of things for ourself is a good thing, but it's naive to assume
that we'll end up with a more advantageous arrangement as a result.

That's the appalling chauvinism, reminiscent of the worst parts of Britain's
imperial past ("foreigners will do what we say"), that seems to keep coming
from the Leave side.

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Colin Rosenstiel