The European Commission opened on Monday 31 August a consultation on an initiative on airport slots which should satisfy airlines (see EUROPE B12529A21).
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, the latter had obtained in March the authorisation to derogate, until 24 October 2020, from the so-called ‘use it or lose it’ regulation, which obliges them to operate at least 80% of their slots at European airports (see EUROPE B12456A17).
As early as June, they called on the Commission to...