sevenair wrote:Arion640 wrote:
I find it exquisite that Ireland will be so badly hit. Ireland's collusion with the EU to use the border and deep seated anti British sentiment to try and thwart brexit is one of the main reasons why we are heading for hard brexit and it will hit them tremendously. You reap what you sow.
Your decision to throw this kind of damage towards Ireland has them rightly concerned, but their concern is far remote from the vicious bile coming from british brexiteers like yourself.
That they're openly talking about the damage you are about to cause to them
and to yourself without any irish part in that is actually fully in their own national interest and what I've heard from them is just factually correct.
Also factually correct is that even when you're a smaller country, membership in the EU means that as much as you're expected to throw your own weight behind common EU interests, the EU with all its other member states will also throw its own considerable weight behind
your interests when you need it, and that is exactly what is happening now, if to the brexiteers' chagrin in the UK.
And that is while actually most of the dire Brexit consequences aren't even being inflicted by the EU voluntarily but they are instead
automatic consequences of the UK's decisions!
Still the EU fanatics will support Ireland 'stopping flights'. Thankfully most flights can navigate around the small insignificant country and there's no much in the way of UK airlines serving Ireland. IAG can simply switch the London flights to EI. TUI can use an EU subsidiary.
Overflights are not the issue. The issue is that by crashing out of the EU the UK would suddenly lose all its flight connections to the entire EU, and likely to other countries as well.
The only ones benefitting from that might be the people living near Heathrow – at least the ones not working in UK aviation...!