Slot notice is an FAA program to allow carriers to notify the agency that they have available slots for trading. The notification process enables the agency to match available slots with carriers that want to use them, thus increasing competition and potentially providing consumer benefits. daftar fomototo
The FAA has proposed a new mechanism for managing the allocation of scheduled hourly operations at JFK, EWR and LGA. This proposal would apply the International Air Transport Association's Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG) to administering slots at each of these airports. For the first summer and winter scheduling seasons after this NPRM's effective date, this new allocation system would require that each carrier retain the same historical precedence as it held for the previous season. For those hours during which peak demand approaches the airport capacity limits, schedule limit restrictions would be applied, with a maximum of 75 scheduled and six unscheduled hourly operations at JFK and EWR and 71 flights per hour and a 30-minute window for LGA.
During these hours, the FAA believes that the greatest benefit of a slot limit regime is incentivizing airlines to fly larger aircraft on each flight. By doing so, the FAA is aiming to maximize passenger throughput while complying with each airport's operational and physical constraints.
To determine historic precedence, the FAA proposes to require that a carrier operate its assigned slot 80% of the time throughout the period for which it is allocated during the scheduling season. The 80% requirement is intended to ensure that slots are used and that there is no underutilization of these limited resources.
In addition, the 80% requirement is designed to discourage airlines from spreading their flights over several different slots in order to achieve usage requirements of 80% or higher. This practice, which was observed at JFK, EWR and LGA, can lead to underutilization of the full set of allocations and reduce market access.
The second alternative in this NPRM would require that a carrier seeking to sell, lease, or trade its allocations follow a formal process that includes a public notification of the terms of the transaction on an FAA-managed bulletin board. This notice should include the carrier's intended terms of the transaction (slot time, slot number, and whether the proposed transfer is a sale or a lease), and the intended duration of the lease if applicable. The transferring carrier also would be required to identify markets served by the slots it is offering for transfer and the number of the allocated slot. This notification system is designed to encourage transparency and to enable the FAA to quickly match bids and offers to available slots. It would not, however, prevent private negotiations from taking place in advance of the public posting period. This alternative was influenced by concerns raised in comments received on the LGA NPRM about the timeliness of slot notifications. In particular, some carriers complained that they needed more time than the proposed notification period provided to submit their schedule requests for the LGA slot-controlled hours.