On Thursday 14 January, the EU Council working group on aviation examined a first draft compromise on the new Commission proposal for a regulation on the allocation of slots at EU airports (see EUROPE B12625A9).
The main aim of this proposal is to allow a gradual return to the European rule obliging airlines to use at least 80% of their slots at European airports - a rule from which airlines that can no longer operate under normal conditions due to the health crisis have been exempted since...