COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January 1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports

‘slot’ shall mean the permission given by a coordinator in accordance with this Regulation to use the full range of airport infrastructure necessary to operate an air service at a coordinated airport on a specific date and time for the purpose of landing or take-off as allocated by a coordinator in accordance with this Regulation;

‘new entrant’ shall mean:

An air carrier holding more than 5 % of the total slots available on the day in question at a particular airport, or more than 4 % of the total slots available on the day in question in an airport system of which that airport forms part, shall not be considered as a new entrant at that airport;

►M10  le linn na tréimhse ón 30 Deireadh Fómhair 2022 go dtí an 28 Deireadh Fómhair 2023, ciallóidh ‘iontrálaí nua’: ◄

Ní mheasfar gur iontrálaí nua ag an aerfort sin é aeriompróir a bhfuil, i gcomhpháirt lena mháthairghnóthas, lena fhoghnóthais féin nó le foghnóthais a mháthairghnóthais, níos mó ná 10 % d’iomlán na sliotán arna leithroinnt an lá i dtrácht ag aerfort áirithe ina seilbh aige;

‘direct air service’ shall mean a service between two airports including stopovers with the same aircraft and same flight number;

‘scheduling period’ shall mean either the summer or winter season as used in the schedules of air carriers;

‘Community air carrier’ shall mean an air carrier with a valid operating licence issued by a Member State in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2407/92 of 23 July 1992 on licensing of air carriers ( 1 );

‘coordinated airport’ shall mean any airport where, in order to land or take off, it is necessary for an air carrier or any other aircraft operator to have been allocated a slot by a coordinator, with the exception of State flights, emergency landings and humanitarian flights;

‘airport system’ shall mean two or more airports grouped together and serving the same city or conurbation, as indicated in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92;

‘schedules facilitated airport’ shall mean an airport where there is potential for congestion at some periods of the day, week or year which is amenable to resolution by voluntary cooperation between air carriers and where a schedules facilitator has been appointed to facilitate the operations of air carriers operating services or intending to operate services at that airport;

‘managing body of an airport’ shall mean the body which, in conjunction with other activities or otherwise, has the task under national laws or regulations of administering and managing the airport facilities and coordinating and controlling the activities of the various operators present at the airport or within the airport system concerned;

‘series of slots’ shall mean at least five slots having been requested for the same time on the same day of the week regularly in the same scheduling period and allocated in that way or, if that is not possible, allocated at approximately the same time;

‘business aviation’ shall mean that sector of general aviation which concerns the operation or use of aircraft by companies for the carriage of passengers or goods as an aid to the conduct of their business, where the aircraft are flown for purposes generally considered not for public hire and are piloted by individuals having, at a minimum, a valid commercial pilot license with an instrument rating;

‘coordination parameters’ shall mean the expression in operational terms of all the capacity available for slot allocation at an airport during each coordination period, reflecting all technical, operational and environmental factors that affect the performance of the airport infrastructure and its different sub-systems;

ciallóidh ‘paraiméadair chomhordaithe COVID-19’ paraiméadair chomhordaithe athbhreithnithe as a n-eascraíonn laghdú ar acmhainneacht aerfoirt atá ar fáil ag aerfort comhordaithe mar thoradh ar bhearta sláintíocha sonracha arna bhforchur ag na Ballstáit mar fhreagairt ar ghéarchéim COVID-19.