Aviation agencies are pushing eliminate slot rules at airports.
The world’s aviation heavyweights, led by IATA, are pushing to suspend rules on access to airport slots until October 2021, according to a document seen by Reuters.
The text also gives some support to low-cost airlines, irritated by measures they consider anti-competitive.
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The draft proposal that will be presented jointly by IATA, the airport authority ACI and slot coordinators urges regulators to extend the current exemption from the rules that require airlines to use 80% of their takeoff and landing windows if they do not want to have to give up some to their rivals.
The rules on these slots and their suspension have great ramifications for airline competition and market access for low-cost firms, which were deepening even before the pandemic.
By Laurence Frost; edited in Spanish by Carlos Serrano.
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