Global airline traffic is set to double over the next 15 years. That will pose a huge challenge for the more than 200 airports world-wide that are operating at full capacity
Giving airports a formal role in the process alongside airlines should provide more options to fliers as newer entrants secure access to popular airports. Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News By Doug Cameron July 6, 2019 5:30 am ET Rapid growth in global air travel is prompting airlines and airport operators to shake up a decades-old system for allocating takeoff and landing slots at some of the world’s busiest airfields.
Giving airports a formal role in the process alongside airlines should provide more options to fliers as newer entrants secure access to popular airports, especially the emerging breed of low-cost long-haul airlines, such as Norwegian Air Shuttle and Malaysia’s AirAsia X Bhd . Airports, unlike airlines with existing slot holdings, have an incentive to reserve space for carriers willing to open new routes or use larger planes.
The revised IATA slot guidelines don’t specify who actually owns slots. Airlines and airports continue to lobby against any effort by governments to start sales. “It’s very tough for us to get slots,” said JetBlue JBLU 0.31% Airways Corp. Chief Executive Robin Hayes, who wants to start flights to Europe in 2021. JetBlue is lobbying regulators to give it access to Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, which, like most of Europe’s big hubs, is effectively full.
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