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Free European air space and movement of people are key Brexit concerns

Destinations
Edward Robertson
20 September 2016

The need for a single European air space, the free movement of people and the possible reintroduction of visas are all concerns of the travel industry in the post Brexit world.

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Bosses from the UK industry gathered for a round-table debate hosted by City Cruises and chaired by travel industry stalwart Fiona Jeffrey in London this month.

While a number of topics were up for conversation, the need to maintain a single free airspace was the dominant one.

Alistair Pritchard, lead partner at Deloitte, said: “For us, a single European sky and similar legislation around maritime and rail around Europe is the number one priority.

“The negotiations around how we feed into that are critical because we’ll have to start negotiating bilateral agreements to move aircrafts across Europe and indeed to the US.”