Airlines
Europe’s Airports Seek Greater Say in Slot Allocation Process
Trade body ACI Europe calls for more scrutiny of slot leasing and wants revenues from secondary slot trading.

Europe’s airports seek a major shake-up of the EU slot regulation, calling the current system outdated and no longer fit to promote more efficient operations and more effective competition. “A regulatory regime based upon what the air transport market looked like 27 years ago is not only anachronistic—it is limiting the ability of airports to pursue more sustainable operations, to develop air connectivity for their communities, and to promote airline competition for the benefit of consumers,” said Olivier Jankovec, director-general of ACI Europe. Under the current rules, he stressed, “airports have no say in the way in which the very infrastructure they are creating and investing in is being used by airlines. This needs to change.”


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