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.
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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 2017 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 2017/2018 only)
- Chios Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Corfu Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Heraklion Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Kalamata Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Karpathos Island National Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Kavala Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Kephalonia International Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Kithira Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Kos Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Mykonos Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Mytilene Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Patras Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Preveza Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Rhodes Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Samos Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Sitia Public Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Skiathos Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Thessaloniki International Airport
- Thira Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Volos Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Zakynthos International Airport (summer 2017/2018 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 2017/2018 only)
- Linate Airport - Milan
- Malpensa Airport - Milan
- Orio al Serio Airport - Milan
- Naples International Airport
- Palermo International Airport
- Pantelleria Airport (summer 2017/2018 only)
- Ciampino Airport - Rome
- Fiumicino Airport - Rome
- 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 2017/2018 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 2017/2018 only)
- Lanzarote Airport
- Madrid Barajas Airport
- Málaga Airport
- Menorca Airport (summer 2017/2018 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 2017/2018 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 (summer 2017 only)
- Cardiff Airport (summer 2017 only)
- 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)
Vietnam
- Noi Bai International Airport - Hanoi
- Tan Son Nhat International Airport - Ho Chi Minh City
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References
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