Leaving the EU has subtracted staff from airlines and airports in two damaging ways

Heathrow Airport has lost a High Court bid to challenge the scrapping of tax-free shopping for tourists.

BRITISH Airways has confirmed it will increase activity at Belfast City Airport to make up for the loss of Aer Lingus on the busy London Heathrow route at the end of October. / The Irish carrier has been forced to withdraw from the service, with Dublin-based trade union Fórsa blaming Brexit.

"The next time some Brexit grandee dials it in from Provence to assure the Today Programme that all is well, report them to the Excise, for not doing the paperwork for their phone, that'll reverse Brexit."

London airport preparing for no deal by putting aside imported security materials.

"Thirty per cent of the people who worked in UK aviation before the covid pandemic were EU nationals."

A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.