Principles

EC Regulation 95/93, as amended, stipulates that the coordinator shall monitor the conformity of air carriers' operations with the slots allocated to them.

Slot monitoring at coordinated airports is a continuous process designed to ensure that most effective use is made of scarce capacity, an adequate level of service quality is maintained and intentional schedule abuse is separated from the normal variations in operational performance.

The main objective of slot monitoring should be to identify possible problems regarding the use of slots and seek solutions before they occur whenever possible, or as soon as possible after the date of operation.

Slot monitoring should be done in a timely manner in order to give airlines the opportunity to correct behaviour during the current season by establishing a dialogue with affected air carriers as soon as possible when potential issues are identified.

All procedures related to slot monitoring must be based on the principles of neutrality, transparency and non-discrimination.

Procedures

Slot monitoring is performed by the coordinator, comparing the most recent slot information with the actually operated block times of an airline in order to determine whether off slot operations or operations without a slot have occurred. Furthermore it is established whether the deviations have happened repeatedly and intentionally, whether the actual times were significantly different from the allocated slot times and whether the deviations have caused prejudice to the airport operations.