FAA Waves Minimum Slot Use Requirements at Airports
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is temporarily waiving minimum slot-use requirements at U.S. airports to help airlines that cancel flights due to the Coronavirus.
Under normal circumstances, airlines can lose their slots atcongested airports if they don’t use them at least 80 percent of the time.
The FAA is waiving the 80-percent-use requirement throughMay 31, 2020 for U.S. and foreign airlines that have affected flights. In doingso, the FAA expects that U.S. carriers will be accommodated with reciprocalrelief by foreign authorities at airports in their countries and may determinenot to grant a waiver to a foreign carrier whose home jurisdiction does notreciprocate. The agency will continue to monitor the Coronavirus’s effect ontravel demand and may adjust this waiver as circumstances warrant. The FAA willinform airlines of any decision to extend the waiver period as soon aspossible.
This waiver of the slot usage requirement, which the FAA ispublishing in the Federal Register, applies to John F. Kennedy InternationalAirport (JFK), New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA), and Ronald Reagan WashingtonNational Airport (DCA). Additionally, at four other U.S. airports where theagency has a formal schedule review and approval process — Chicago O’HareInternational Airport (ORD), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), LosAngeles International Airport (LAX), and San Francisco International Airport(SFO) — the FAA will give credit to airlines for flights that were canceled dueto the Coronavirus through May 31, 2020, as though those flights had beenoperated, when the FAA conducts future schedule development.
