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No. Not if the other 92% do not share your interests.Our Commissioner wields 29 weighted points out of 345, so about 8% of the total. Is that not influence?
And the reason why a no-deal Brexit (if that's what you mean by "leave properly") will be such a disaster is because it will cut off cooperation suddenly in all these areas.
The areas of co-operation you mention do not need a political union to see them operate effectively. As an aside the UK's fishing industry has been all but destroyed by the EU's fisheries policy. Incredible as it may seem, air travel takes place quite successfully in the rest of the world that is not in the EU. Agreeing standards for traded goods is obviously desirable or even necessary (and is prevalent all over the globe in the form of trading agreements). But nowhere else that I know of does it require free movement of people or submission to a foreign court as pre-conditions.