Believing that the time has come “to establish a pathway to return to a normal application of the ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ rule”, the European Commission presented a new proposal on slot allocation at EU airports on Wednesday 16 December.
In March this year, the institution granted airlines in difficulty due to the pandemic the right to derogate from the ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ rule, which requires them to operate at least 80% of their slots at European airports(see EUROPE B12456A17). It...