UK airlines risk losing rights in EU after Brexit

The EU may attempt to strip British airlines of some flying rights after Brexit, with officials in Brussels warning that UK-based carriers could see their ability to compete across the bloc impeded. A meeting of the EC and diplomats from the remaining 27 EU countries has taken the first steps in sketching out the EU’s negotiating position on post-Brexit aviation links with Britain. If this becomes the EU’s stance going into the next phase of the talks, it would be another indication of the tough line being put forward by the bloc, following last week’s strengthening of the proposed language on the transition period. Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc means that there would technically be no agreement to enable planes to fly between the U.K. and the EU. <br/>