EasyJet will announce the location of a new post-Brexit European base within weeks, according to reports.
According to Sky News, the easyJet board has penciled in an April decision on the location of a new air operator’s certificate (AOC), which will allow it to continue flying between EU member states.
Sky city editor Mark Kleinman said: "The decision will effectively entail the establishment of a new legal headquarters for easyJet, although the company has no plans to relocate the 1,000 staff who work at its operational head office at Luton Airport."
The report says easyJet has spent nine months ‘evaluating the merits of securing an AOC in each of the remaining 27 EU member states, and sources said on Sunday that countries including Austria, Malta and Portugal had been under serious recent consideration’.
One insider said the shortlist of options was now ‘very short’.
EasyJet has not commented.
