Airlines
European Slot Coordinators Support Leniency of Slot Rules
The slot coordinators’ position follows airlines’ calls to temporary suspend the 80/20 use-it-or-lose-it rule in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The European Airport Coordinators Association (EUACA) supports calls from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Airlines for Europe (A4E) for regulators to temporary suspend the EU rule that requires air carriers to operate slots for at least 80 percent of the time to keep the entitlement in the next equivalent season. In a statement released on Monday, the EUACA said EU authorities should grant a waiver of the so-called 80/20 use-it-or-lose-it rule until the end of June 2020 "at the latest" as a first step to stem the effect of the Covid-19 outbreak on airlines' slot rights, “with a provision for a possible extension should the Covid-19 outbreak crisis continue.” The EU should base any decision to extend the waiver further on “supporting data,” it stressed.