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PARIS (Reuters) - Global aviation heavyweights led by airline body IATA are pushing to suspend airport slot access rules until October 2021, they said on Thursday, but will give some ground to budget carriers angered by measures they deem anti-competitive.

The draft proposal, first reported by Reuters, was issued jointly by IATA, airports body ACI and slot coordinator association WWACG. It would prolong the current suspension of rules requiring airlines to use 80% of their take-off and landing windows or else cede some to rivals.

Rules on the allocation of airport slots have big ramifications for airline competition and market access for low-cost carriers, which were making ever deeper inroads before the pandemic. The current waiver expires on March 31.

'We oppose the extension of slot waivers into summer 2021 because this will lead to fewer flights and higher fares for consumers,' a Ryanair spokeswoman said.

'Legacy airlines at hub airports will have no incentives to operate flights,' she added. 'Slot waivers distort competition by preventing low-fare airlines from expanding while legacy carriers are able to reduce capacity and raise prices.'

The issue is increasingly divisive among airlines and airports, pitting budget carriers largely absent from IATA against the organisation's more traditional membership.

In a bid to address concerns, the proposal would restore the 'use-it-or-lose-it' principle during the northern summer but reduce the utilisation rate required to keep slots to 50%.

'All parties agree that the normal threshold (80:20) should be replaced by a lower threshold,' the draft document says. '(The) slot usage requirement threshold shall be set at 50:50.'

IATA said the plan was 'essential to preserve connectivity' until air traffic recovers. 'The existing slot rules were never designed to cope with a prolonged industry collapse,' it said in a statement.

The proposal would also allow incumbent carriers to sidestep the 50% rule on slots they return for temporary allocation to rivals by February - too late for schedule planning, competitors say.

It is unlikely to satisfy Ryanair or ultra-low cost peer Wizz Air.

'Wizz Air finds any attempt to extend the current slot waiver in full, partially or at lower thresholds totally unacceptable,' its Chief Executive Jozsef Varadi told Reuters. 'Wizz Air is not party to this effort which is harmful to consumers, societies, taxpayers and the general workforce.'

But easyJet, a longer-established budget carrier present at major European airports, said it 'views the IATA-led industry proposal as a good compromise.'

Governments will decide on any waiver extension and must balance competition with support for an industry brought to a near-standstill in long-haul and many regional markets.

A blueprint with sector-wide backing is nevertheless bound to influence the European Commission, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators, experts say.

For incumbents, it offers 'protection for their slot portfolios in a season where demand is still likely to be too weak to justify operating full programmes,' aviation consultant John Strickland said.

'But low-cost carriers with aircraft available to begin new services will see this as providing insufficient flexibility,' he added, and the plan leaves some airports 'unable to accept new flight capacity while seeing revenues continue to haemorrhage.'

(Reporting by Laurence Frost; additional reporting by Sarah Young in London; Editing by Edmund Blair and Susan Fenton)

Slot coordination

Slot coordination process

Basic principles and stages

The basic principles this activity is based on and the main stages that it comprises are described below.

• Historic Rights (80/20 or ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ Rule)

Article 10.2 of EEC Regulation No 95/93

A series of slots that has been allocated to an air carrier for the operation of a scheduled or a programmed non-scheduled air service shall not entitle that air carrier to the same series of slots in the next equivalent scheduling period if the air carrier cannot demonstrate to the satisfaction of the coordinator that they have been operated, as cleared by the coordinator, by that air carrier for at least 80 % of the time during the scheduling period for which they have been allocated.

Approximately six months before the start of each scheduling season (Summer or Winter) the recognized and rejected historic rights of each airline are calculated, based on the slot misuse information and the slot cancellations received as from the Historic Baseline Date of the previous equivalent season.The recognized and/or rejected historic rights are notified to each airline (SHL messages), which then have a period of approximately three weeks to file their claims in relation to the aforementioned.

• Initial Submission

Following the recognition of historic rights and during a period of approximately four weeks, the airlines may submit their initial slot request for the corresponding season, which may include the confirmation of historic rights, their modification and/or the request of new flights. The initial (mailbox opening) and final (mailbox closure) dates of this period are established worldwide on an annual basis by the industry and notified by the relevant Slot Coordinator.

• Initial Coordination

Following receipt of the initial requests and in accordance with the airport capacity parameters that have been declared for the season concerned, the Slot Coordinator carries out the initial allocation of slots (Initial Coordination) applying the criteria set out in the prevailing regulations and taking into account the industry recommendations.

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At the end of the Initial Coordination, the Slot Coordinator informs all airlines of the results (SAL messages). When it is not possible to satisfy a slot request, the requesting airline will be notified of the reasons, indicating the closest alternative, if there is any. This communication is distributed approximately two weeks before commencement of the IATA Slot Conference.

• IATA Slot Conference

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The IATA Slot Conference (held in June for the Winter season and in November for the following Summer season) is held few days after the SAL messages have been distributed. These Slot Conferences are attended by most of the Slot Coordinators and airlines worldwide and, during the three/four days they last, the airlines' schedules are confirmed and adjusted through bilateral Slot Coordinator/Airline meetings, in which improvement options for those schedules that were allocated differently to what was requested are analyzed.

Given the fact that schedules modifications in one particular aiport affect others, the Slot Conference provides a suitable forum for all the changes to be quickly and efficiently processed at once.

• Post-Conference Slot Coordination

After the IATA Slot Conference, the Slot Coordinator continues to adapt and improve flight schedules together with the airlines, taking into account the capacity available at any time and the fact that there may have been slot cancellations and modifications. This management of available capacity is