ACI Europe stays firmly in help of the precept of the Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines and dedicated to their additional enchancment. However, with progress being sluggish at finest, airport congestion changing into problematic and airline consolidation gathering tempo.
BRUSSELS – Reacting to the assertion launched by IATA and numerous regional airline associations which referred to as for a worldwide alignment of slot rules by strictly abiding solely to the Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines (WASG), ACI Europe reiterated its name for pressing reform of airport slot guidelines in Europe.
The WASG have been the inspiration for airport slot allocation guidelines the world over, and have served as a useful gizmo on this regard. While they’ve advanced each in substance and governance, they should additional mirror the fact of at the moment’s European aviation market and to adequately stability the wants of all stakeholders – particularly airports and their communities.
Working intently with ACI World and the opposite ACI Regions1, ACI Europe stays firmly in help of the precept of the Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines and dedicated to their additional enchancment. However, with progress being sluggish at finest, airport congestion changing into problematic2 and airline consolidation gathering tempo, it’s pressing that airport slot rules in Europe are reformed.
Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI Europe commented: “Portraying the WASG as they currently stand as the unsung hero of the air transport system as IATA does is largely about protecting a status quo that benefits some but does little to ensure the integrity and competitiveness of our Single European aviation market. Key issues for reform are rules and practices that end up preventing consumer choice and connectivity. These include the hoarding of airport slots, overbidding, slot leasing, secondary trading, abuse of new entrant status and ‘double dipping’.”
1 ACI Africa, ACI Asia‑Pacific, ACI Eurppe, ACI‑LAC and ACI North America.
2 Europe at the moment already accounts for greater than half of the world’s most congested airports
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