Brexit - Potential impacts on BA?
Jun 25, 2016, 11:23 am
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If you care to give me a specific example that you have in mind, I'll certainly be interested.
Jun 25, 2016, 11:25 am
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Jun 25, 2016, 11:29 am
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I can say this much: I am less tempted to use Heathrow as a gateway to Scotland. The service wasn't good to start with, but with Scotland's looming exit from the UK (and presuming an expedited entry into the EU), it's more reason to prefer flights through Dublin.
Heathrow just becomes less attractive as a connecting airport.
Heathrow just becomes less attractive as a connecting airport.
Jun 25, 2016, 11:31 am
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Jun 25, 2016, 11:35 am
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I was told by a friendly BA employee that the reason the call centers are so busy today is that they are receiving 'an unusually high number of flight cancellations'...
Possibly people who can't afford (or don't want to spend 20% more on) their foreign holidays anymore.
Possibly people who can't afford (or don't want to spend 20% more on) their foreign holidays anymore.
Jun 25, 2016, 11:36 am
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Indeed, as well as a hiring of very many British bureaucrats to fill departments where most of the work was so far transferred (with significant economies of scales) to the EU level such as environmental legislation, safety standards, consumer protection, etc. Many of those imply very technical skills and we do not have enough "free" scientists so either pay will have to be very significant, making the running of those operations onerous, or they will have to make decisions with lower scientific skills than has been the case so far (but then, I forgot that experts are apparently not needed anyway), or they will have to do what some other associate countries are doing which is to just swallow and replicate the decisions made in the EU, call them British, and lose any say on the decisions (the Swiss actually have a word for this process of "rubber stamping" of EU legislation).
Jun 25, 2016, 11:43 am
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Jun 25, 2016, 11:54 am
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And note that all those EU telecom regulations are not just EU law. They are also folded into national law in each country of the EU. So that means that when the UK exits the EU all those laws will still be on the books in the UK. Until OFCOM or the UK Parliament decide to change them, right?
Jun 25, 2016, 11:55 am
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So if indeed the SLP decide to support independence, I have no doubt that a second independence referendum would indeed end up being organised and this time, especially if the economic and social situation deteriorates as a result of Brexit, it is not impossible at all that independence might win.
Jun 25, 2016, 12:10 pm
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I have much sympathy for Her Majesty in this unfolding scenario.
One one hand she gets her Nation back from Bruxelles, and on the other constutuent parts continue to try to fragment it.
One one hand she gets her Nation back from Bruxelles, and on the other constutuent parts continue to try to fragment it.
Jun 25, 2016, 12:31 pm
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Jun 25, 2016, 12:45 pm
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Jun 25, 2016, 12:46 pm
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Jun 25, 2016, 12:49 pm
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I guess this also means that we're stuck with afternoon tea 
Jun 25, 2016, 12:55 pm
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OK, Her Parliament has lost many of its powers to Bruxelles. As it has to Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Where is the glue that holds/held Great Britain together?
Anyway, I strayed from the BA-specific topic. Apologies.
Where is the glue that holds/held Great Britain together?
Anyway, I strayed from the BA-specific topic. Apologies.
