London Heathrow Slots

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Allocated landing slots may have a commercial value and can be traded between airlines. Continental Airlines paid US$ 209 million for four pairs of landing slots from GB Airways at London Heathrow Airport, $52.3m each. Heathrow slots are the world’s most valuable. The price airlines pay for them will depend on the time of day and day of the week. SAS has previously sold other Heathrow slots. Two years ago SAS.

The airline plans to fly to the airport from September; sources say it has got one daily slot

Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said it has secured slots at the London Heathrow Airport, which will allow the airline to commence flights to the UK from next month.

Sources at SpiceJet said it has got one daily slot and the airline plans to operate flights to Heathrow from multiple cities.

The slots, under the air bubble pact with the UK, will later be extended for SpiceJet to operate regular flights once international services are resumed, the airline said in a regulatory filing.

An air bubble is a bilateral arrangement with a set of regulations and restrictions in which the carriers of the two countries can operate international flights.

Regular international flights in India have been suspended since March 22. However, various evacuation and chartered flights are operating to fly back stranded Indians.

“SpiceJet has secured slots at London Heathrow Airport to operate flights effective September 1. This is under the bubble arrangement between India and UK and effective up to end of summer schedule, which is October 23,” the airline said in the filing.

A slot allows an airline to land and depart at a particular airport at a designated time.

SpiceJet also said that it is in “advance discussion to secure slots for the winter schedule for regular operations.”

The winter schedule of airlines in India commences from the last Saturday of October and lasts up to the last week of March every year.

“London is one of the busiest long-haul destinations from India and this is a huge milestone for SpiceJet,” said chairman and managing director Ajay Singh.

“The identical arrival/departure slots that we have secured at Heathrow should suit the convenience of our passengers perfectly,” he added.

SpiceJet is the first low-cost airline from India to get this facility in Heathrow, one of the busiest airports in the world.

Sources said the airline plans to take on wet lease A330 or B787 aircraft for the long haul. In wet lease, the airline gets the airline as well as the crew, including pilots.

Some reports said SpiceJet has applied for an Airbus A330 aircraft on wet lease from Hi Fly, a Portuguese charter airline.

At present, Air India is the only Indian carrier that flies to the UK.

Jet Airways, which ceased operations last year, used to fly to the UK.

Vistara has London on its radar and got its first wide body aircraft in March but those plans have been delayed by the pandemic.

Vistara will shortly get its second Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

A landing slot, takeoff slot, or airport slot is a permission granted by the owner of an airport designated as Level 3 (Coordinated Airport), which allows the grantee to schedule a landing or departure at that airport during a specific time period.^[1] Slots may be administered by the operator of the airport or by a government aviation regulator such as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.^[2]

Landing slots are allocated in accordance with guidelines set down by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 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). At Level 2 airports, the principles governing slot allocation are less stringent; airlines periodically submit proposed schedules to the administrating authority, rather than historic performance. Participation is not mandatory, but reduces congestion and non-participants are penalized if the airport must later be designated level 3.^[2]

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

Allocated landing slots may have a commercial value and can be traded between airlines. Continental Airlines paid US$209 million for four pairs of landing slots from GB Airways at London Heathrow Airport, $52.3m each.^[4] 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.^[5]

Heathrow slot valuations^[6]
Year	Buyer	Seller	daily slot pairs	transaction (£M)	slot value (£M)
1998	BA	Air UK	4	15.6	3.9
2002	BA	BA Connect	5	13	2.6
2002	BA	SN Brussels	7	27.5	3.9
2003	BA	SWISS	8	22.5	2.8
2003	BA	United	2	12	6
2004	Virgin	Flybe	4	20	5
2004	Qantas	Flybe	2	20	10
2006	BA	BWIA	1	5	5
2007	BA	Malev	2	7	3.5
2007	BA	BA	7.3	30	4.1
2007	Virgin	Air Jamaica	1	5.1	5.1
2007	BMI	77.7	770	9.9
2007	unknown	Alitalia	3	67	22.3
2008	Continental	GB Airways/Alitalia/Air France	4	104.5	26.1
2013	Delta	unknown	2	30.8	15.4
2013	Etihad	Jet	3	46.2	15.4

As supply is limited, 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 was equivalent to £4 per passenger.^[7]

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.^[8] To avoid pollution and financial losses caused by an excessive number of empty flights, these rules have occasionally been waived during periods of temporary but widespread travel disruption, including after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and during the SARS epidemic, the Great Recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic.^[9]

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Innsbruck Airport (winter season only)

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