Landing slot

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A landing slot, takeoff slot, or airport slot is a right granted by an airport owner which allows the slot holder to schedule a landing or departure during a specific time period.

Landing slots are allocated in accordance with guidelines set down by the IATA's Worldwide Airport Slots Group. All airports worldwide are categorized as either Level 1 (Non-Coordinated Airport), Level 2 (Schedules Facilitated Airport), or Level 3 (Coordinated Airport).

As of summer 2017, a total of 123 airports in the world are Level 2 airports, and 177 are Level 3 airports.

Allocated landing slots may have a commercial value and can be traded between airlines. Continental Airlines paid $209 million for four pairs of landing slots from GB Airways at London Heathrow Airport, $52.3m each. The highest price paid for a pair of take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport was $75m, paid by Oman Air to Air France-KLM for a prized early morning arrival, reported in February 2016. A year before, American Airlines paid $60m to Scandinavian Airlines.

As demand exceeds supply, slot trading became the main solution to enter Heathrow and transfers grew from 42 in 2000 to 526 in 2012 and over 10 years the average priced slot increased prices by £4 per passenger.

If an airline does not use an allocation of slots (typically 80% usage over six months), it can lose the rights. Airlines may operate ghost or empty flights to preserve slot allocations.

Video Landing slot

Level 3 coordinated airports

Australia

Adelaide Airport
Brisbane Airport
Cairns Airport
Darwin International Airport
Gold Coast Airport
Melbourne Airport
Perth Airport
Sydney Airport

Austria

Innsbruck Airport (winter season only)
Vienna International Airport

Belgium

Brussels Airport

Brazil

Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport
São Paulo-Congonhas Airport
São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport
Santos Dumont Airport

Cambodia

Phnom Penh International Airport
Siem Reap International Airport

Canada

Toronto Pearson International Airport
Vancouver International Airport

Cape Verde

Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Nelson Mandela International Airport
Aristides Pereira International Airport

Colombia

El Dorado International Airport

Cuba

José Martí International Airport
Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport

China

Beijing Capital International Airport
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport
Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport
Kunming Changshui International Airport
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport
Tianjin Binhai International Airport
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport

Czech Republic

Václav Havel Airport Prague

Denmark

Billund Airport
Copenhagen Airport

Finland

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

France

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport
Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
Paris Orly Airport
Nice Airport

Germany

Berlin Schönefeld Airport
Berlin Tegel Airport
Düsseldorf Airport
Frankfurt Airport
Hamburg Airport
Munich Airport
Stuttgart Airport

Ghana

Kotoka International Airport - Accra

Greece

Chania Airport (summer season only)
Chios Airport (summer season only)
Corfu Airport (summer season only)
Heraklion Airport (summer season only)
Kalamata Airport (summer season only)
Karpathos Island National Airport (summer season only)
Kavala Airport (summer season only)
Kephalonia International Airport (summer season only)
Kithira Airport (summer season only)
Kos Airport (summer season only)
Mykonos Airport (summer season only)
Mytilene Airport (summer season only)
Patras Airport (summer season only)
Preveza Airport (summer season only)
Rhodes Airport (summer season only)
Samos Airport (summer season only)
Sitia Public Airport (summer season only)
Skiathos Airport (summer season only)
Thessaloniki International Airport
Thira Airport (summer season only)
Volos Airport (summer season only)
Zakynthos International Airport (summer season only)

Greenland

Ilulissat Airport
Kangerlussuaq Airport
Nuuk Airport

Hong Kong

Hong Kong International Airport

Iceland

Keflavik International Airport

India

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Mumbai
Indira Gandhi International Airport - Delhi
Chennai International Airport - Chennai

Indonesia

Ngurah Rai International Airport - Denpasar
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport - Jakarta

Ireland

Dublin Airport

Israel

Tel Aviv International Airport

Italy

Cagliari Airport
Catania Airport
Florence Airport
Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport
Lampedusa Airport (summer season only)
Linate Airport - Milan
Malpensa Airport - Milan
Orio al Serio Airport - Milan
Naples International Airport
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (summer season only)
Palermo International Airport
Pantelleria Airport (summer season only)
Ciampino Airport - Rome
Fiumicino Airport - Rome
Treviso Airport
Turin Airport
Venice Marco Polo Airport

Japan

Fukuoka Airport
Tokyo Haneda International Airport
Tokyo Narita International Airport

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Mauritius

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport - Mauritius

Mexico

Mexico City International Airport

Morocco

Mohammed V International Airport
Rabat-Salé Airport

Netherlands

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Eindhoven Airport
Rotterdam The Hague Airport

New Zealand

Auckland International Airport
Christchurch International Airport
Wellington International Airport

Norway

Oslo Airport
Bergen Airport
Stavanger Airport
Trondheim Airport

Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto International Airport
Jinnah International Airport
Allama Iqbal International Airport
Bacha Khan International Airport

Philippines

Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Manila

Poland

Pozna?-?awica Airport
Warsaw Chopin Airport

Portugal

Faro Airport (summer season only)
Funchal Airport
Lisbon Airport
Porto Airport

Russia

Sheremetyevo Airport - Moscow
Vnukovo International Airport - Moscow

Saudi Arabia

King Abdulaziz International Airport

Singapore

Singapore Changi Airport

South Africa

Cape Town International Airport
King Shaka International Airport - Durban
OR Tambo International Airport - Johannesburg

South Korea

Jeju International Airport
Seoul Gimpo International Airport
Seoul Incheon International Airport

Spain

Alicante Airport
Barcelona Airport
Bilbao Airport
Fuerteventura Airport
Gran Canaria Airport
Ibiza Airport (summer season only)
Lanzarote Airport
Madrid Barajas Airport
Málaga Airport
Menorca Airport (summer season only)
Palma de Mallorca Airport
Tenerife South Airport
Valencia Airport

Sri Lanka

Bandaranaike International Airport

Sweden

Göteborg Landvetter Airport
Stockholm Arlanda Airport
Stockholm-Bromma Airport

Switzerland

Geneva International Airport
Zürich Airport

Taiwan

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Thailand

Chiang Mai International Airport
Suvarnabhumi International Airport - Bangkok
Don Mueang International Airport - Bangkok
Phuket International Airport

Tunisia

Tunis-Carthage International Airport

Turkey

Antalya Airport - Antalya (summer season only)
Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport

Ukraine

Boryspil International Airport - Kiev

United Arab Emirates

Dubai International Airport

United Kingdom

Birmingham Airport
Bristol Airport
London City Airport
London Gatwick Airport
London Heathrow Airport
London Luton Airport
London Stansted Airport
Manchester Airport

United States

John F. Kennedy International Airport - New York City
LaGuardia Airport (not on IATA list, but slot controlled)
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - Washington, D.C. (not on IATA list, but slot controlled)

Sunday, June 3, 2018