Airlines, airports and slot coordinators announced on Thursday 3 September that they had found common ground on airport slots “in order to facilitate a prompt decision by the European Commission”.
The Commission will have the last word on a possible extension of the waiver granted last March to airlines(see EUROPE B12456A17): the latter have been authorised, until 24 October 2020, to disregard the so-called ‘use it or lose it’ rule, which requires them to operate at least 80% of...